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Buck Nelson was an Alaska smokejumper for over 25 years, parachuting to remote wildfires in Alaska and across the West. He has enjoyed many other adventures, including thru-hiking the Triple Crown: the Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail. In 2012 he was the first person to thru-hike the Desert Trail from Mexico to Canada. Buck lives in a log cabin near Fairbanks, Alaska. “If there were an Oscar for indie adventure films, Buck Nelson would be a runaway winner.” Backpacker Magazine.00:00 Introduction to Bruce “Buck” Nelson's Adventures00:54 Dramatic Firefighting Stories04:48 Challenges and Dangers of Smoke Jumping08:05 Training and Physical Demands18:40 Outdoor Adventures and Expeditions19:38 Memorable Long-Distance Trips23:46 Climbing the Highest Mountains28:05 Discoveries and Wildlife Encounters32:58 Discovering Mammoth Tusks34:09 Ancient Hunter Sites35:22 Survival Trips Without Food36:03 Minimalist Survival in the Brooks Range40:06 Surviving in Fiji46:27 Documenting Adventures55:16 Wildlife Encounters57:48 Bear Encounters and Safety01:01:29 Life in Fairbanks Cabin01:02:38 Conclusion and Farewellhttps://bucktrack.com/=========AI summaries of all of my podcasts: https://tomn.substack.com/p/podcast-summariesMy Linktree: https://linktr.ee/tomanelson1

Cam Honan has hiked across 56 countries on six continents, logging over 96,500 km in three decades. Backpacker Magazine called him “the most traveled hiker on earth”. I've wanted to speak with him for ages about his excellent website The Hiking Life. He's also the author of Wanderlust Nordics, Wanderlust Himalaya, Wanderlust Mediterranean, Wanderlust USA, The Hidden Tracks, and other books. We talked about his favourite Nordic trails, how to go light by ditching your tent and sleeping bag, and why you should see the world at walking speed.

In Episode 104B, we are once again deep in the backcountry on the Benton MacKaye Trail where we sit fireside and under the stars for Backpacker Trivia. In the show, I pose questions from Backpacker Magazine, the U.S. Forest Service, and KSLTV in Salt Lake City on some interesting hiking and backpacking questions about the backcountry. In the podcast, we have a lot of fun answering trivia questions at our campsite and we actually witness a trail runner on a 60 mile midnight run as we record our podcast! This is a fun episode that definitely merits bonus show status. If you like bonus cuts, you'll certainly enjoy this show...   Subject: Backpacker TriviaInterviewees: 3Dub, Beer Run, Bono, The Weasel, Therm RiderInterview Date: April 13, 2024Runtime: 38:26 Download Now: Backpacker Trivia (WMA format 54.1 MB; Backpacker Trivia (MP3 format 54.0 MB)

Welcome to the "Ignite Your Passion with Bonnie Lang” podcast, where I dive into the stories of individuals who have dared to chase their dreams and create their own paths in life. Today, I'm thrilled to have Bud Force as my guest. Bud's journey is a testament to the power of following your passions and embracing adventure. Born in Texas and raised across the expansive landscapes of the American West, Bud's childhood was marked by his family's military travels, instilling in him a deep love for exploration and the great outdoors. After studying journalism at Texas A&M University and serving in search and rescue for FEMA, Bud discovered his true calling in freelance filmmaking and photography. With a knack for storytelling and an affinity for the natural world, Bud has built a remarkable career, working with prestigious publications like National Geographic and Backpacker Magazine. Today, as the founder of Ultralight Films, Bud continues to push boundaries, producing captivating commercials, documentaries, and short films. Join us as we delve into Bud's captivating journey, exploring his evolution as a filmmaker, his passion for storytelling, and the transformative impact of pursuing one's passions.Don't forget to subscribe, share with friends, and stay tuned for more passion-fueled conversations. Now, meet Bud! CONNECT with BudBud's InstagramWe are literally getting out of the driveway and selling our house to move into our rv full time to travel America and play music at venues all over. What can you do to get out of your driveway? How about creating one goal, what actions can you take? Why is it so important to you? These are questions I ask in my Positively You Course. You can take the first step toward your personal growth with my self assessment Quiz and enroll in the course online. Visit BonnieLang.com/IgniteYOU  for more detailsThank you for listening, I truly appreciate you! I hope you find as much inspiration in these amazing interviews as I do. Remember to hit that subscribe button. If you or someone you know is deeply passionate about their work or you have a topic in mind for discussion, drop me a message at Bonnie@BonnieLang.com.Wishing you a fantastic day, dear friends! Sending you an abundance of peace, love, happiness and hugs. 

The podcast team has been busy at the annual AWP conference, so we're bringing you a rerelease of a great conversation from Season 2. A new episode will be in your feed in two weeks. Luna Adler talks to Jared about moving between fiction and non-fiction, Brooklyn College's unique novel-writing workshop aimed at accommodating the long form, the tension between a slow revision process and rapid MFA deadlines, and the benefit in recording one's writing time while allowing grace for a broad definition of writing time that may or may not include thinking time. Luna Adler is a Brooklyn-based writer and illustrator. She's currently an MFA candidate in fiction at Brooklyn College, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She is a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Review and a reader for Pigeon Pages. Her words, art, and comics have appeared or are forthcoming in Bon Appétit, Bust Magazine, Interview Magazine, Literary Hub, Gossamer, Autostraddle, Electric Literature, Backpacker Magazine, The Rumpus, The Belladonna Comedy, Hobart Pulp, and Lux Magazine, among others. Find her on Instagram @lunaadler or at lunaadler.com, where you can subscribe to her illustrated newsletter. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. BE PART OF THE SHOW — Donate to the show at Buy Me a Coffee. — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers Email: mfawriterspodcast@gmail.com

In this episode, we chat with Ryan Wichlens, one of the many behind Trails Magazine. Growing up around New York's Adirondack Mountains, he started as Backpacker Magazine's go-to Northeast expert during college before becoming a full-time freelance journalist in Colorado. When the end of Backpacker magazine's print era came in 2022, Ryan stepped in to fill the void with Trails Magazine. Aiming to create a print magazine tailored for backpackers but with improvements, it distinguishes itself with quality, thoughtful design, captivating large-format photography, and an emphasis on aesthetics. Unlike the ad-heavy model of many magazines, Trails relies on subscribers to sustain itself, fostering a community dedicated to the backpacking experience. If you've ever wanted to know why you should never be afraid to shoot your shot, or what it takes to build something entirely on passion, then this one's for you! Life in Motion is brought to you by Actual Outdoors. They help build beautiful brands that highlight the approachable and authentic parts of outdoor recreation. Said simply - they “keep it real”. Find them online at actualoutdoors.com or on Instagram at @actualoutdoors.  Tweet us and let us know what you think of this episode! @illuminecollect Find more episodes at www.illuminecollect.com/blogs/life-in-motion-podcast Since 2017 Illumine has donated over $34,770 to outdoor nonprofits and shared over 184 stories on the Life in Motion Podcast.

Ryan Wichelns is the founding editor of Trails Magazine.  It is the only independent, quality-over-quantity, and print-only magazine for backpackers and those who love to sleep in the dirt. He is also an outdoor-adventure and environmental freelance writer and journalist. His work has appeared in Backpacker Magazine, Outside Online, Gear Junkie, and more.  Ryan first appeared in episode 12 and again in episode 100.  You can learn more about Trails Magazine at trailsmag.net.  Ryan Wichelns, welcome back to the show.

This visualization meditation is designed to release tension throughout the body while on a dog walk, or sitting with a dog next to you. This guided body scan will slowly, from head to toe, recognize where you may be holding stress and imagine releasing tightness with each exhale. By allowing the body to decompress mindfully, you will be left feeling grounded and centered. When we are calm and stress-free, our dogs tend to reflect back a similar demeanor.  For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-stress-relief-body-scanSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This mantra meditation is designed to help guide your mind towards the act of forgiveness and not dwelling on the past, like our dogs seem to do everyday. The goal of this meditation is to make room in your heart for love and peace. For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-finding-forgivenessSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This visualization meditation is designed to bring you closer to the natural world that surrounds you, wherever you are. This practice will also help you to connect and reflect on your relationship with your dog in a deeply spiritual way. Afterward, you may feel the pure love from your mutual bond and immense gratitude for having a dog in your life.For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-pure-loveSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This mantra meditation is designed to free your mind from the many distractions and dilemmas of everyday life. Instead, the goal is to shift your focus on your dog and the immense love that they bring you. Truly recognizing the importance of this can make you feel more confident in all facets of your life by knowing you have their unconditional support.For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-loving-confidenceSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This walking meditation is designed to help you gain a stronger appreciation for your dog and the natural world on your walks together. It will also direct you to notice a dog's exuberance, and this happiness may extend into our hearts and minds. The reward from this meditation will be a feeling of joy that allows you to be more present with others in daily routines, bringing an increased sense of gratitude and fullness to life.  For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-embrace-joySeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

In this episode we welcome Liz Thomas. Liz is hailed as a "thru-hiking legend" by Outside Magazine, and holds the women's self-supported speed record for the 2,181-mile-long Appalachian Trail. Besides completing over 20 long-distance trails, including the iconic Triple Crown, Liz has pioneered urban thru-hikes across 14 cities, earning her the title “The Queen of Urban Hiking” by The Guardian.  A former New York Times/Wirecutter writer, she's now the Editor-in-Chief of Treeline Review and a contributing editor at Backpacker Magazine. Liz is also the author of the award-winning book "Long Trails: Mastering the Art of the Thru-hike." She has been featured on platforms from Good Morning America to The Wall Street Journal.  In this episode, we: Discover the wonders of urban thru-hiking Explore the misconceptions of traditional thru-hiking Learn how traditional media can amplify more diverse voices Discuss the importance of seeing people who look like us in the outdoors. Connect with Liz at www.eathomas.com or on instagram @lizthomashiking Thanks for joining us for this episode and discovering the wonders of thru-hiking both in the traditional and urban senses. Be sure to subscribe, rate, and review The Wild We Share, and stay tuned for more conversations on connecting with nature and each other, right here on The Wild We Share. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thewildweshare/message

This mantra meditation is inspired by the powerful Navajo concept of experiencing nature in harmony with all things in our world. It can be a spiritual journey where you feel very strong connection to your dog running off-leash in the woods. It's also a primal connection of being outside in nature and feeling directly connected to the land, the plants, the wind, the sky, and the birds. To be in balance all beings and the greater universe. For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-walk-in-beauty Season 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This week we are thrilled to have Liz “Snorkel” Thomas joining us for a conversation about, well, all the things - manifesting your dreams, accomplishing huge goals, failure, teamwork, knowing your weaknesses, finding joy in the wilderness - this chat really does have something to inspire anyone and everyone. I supposed at the end of the day, this is a chat with a legendary human about her legendary hiking career, and all the traits that helps one become legendary. --- ABOUT OUR GUEST: Liz Thomas is a professional hiker, speaker, and outdoor writer who held the women's self-supported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail from 2011-2015. Called a "thru-hiking legend" by Outside Magazine, Liz has hiked 20+ other long distance trails including the Triple Crown of Hiking (Appalachian Trail, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail) and first known traverses of the Wasatch Range and Chinook Trail. Her innovative urban thru-hikes of 14 cities led The Guardian to call her “The Queen of Urban Hiking.” Liz is a former staff writer for the New York Times/Wirecutter and current Editor-in- Chief for the outdoor webmagazine Treeline Review as well as Backpacker Magazine contributing editor and columnist of “Ask a Thru-hiker.” She's the author of Long Trails: Mastering the Art of the Thru-hike, which received the National Outdoor Book Award for Best Instructional book with judges calling it destined to become the “Bible of the Sport.” Liz has talked hiking and gear on Good Morning America (TV), in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, The Washington Post, Men's Journal, Women's Health, Gizmodo, and Outside Magazine. She represented the sport of hiking at President Obama's Great American Outdoors Initiative. Liz's keynote speaking engagements have included colleges and universities including Yale and MIT, the Trust for Public Land National Leaders Conference, American Hiking Society, and on Capitol Hill. Learn more at www.eathomas.com or @lizthomashiking or Treeline Review. IN THIS EPISODE: We reconnect with Liz, who we originally connected with in 2020 during an episode of the Virtual Campfire podcast Did Liz plan to be this epic or did this just happen? (Spoiler alert, she's a goal-setter and a go-getter!) The art of letting go, knowing your weaknesses, and asking for help The magic of the trail - like losing a bite valve on a thru-hike and finding a new one on the side of the trail 10 miles later Bringing those backcountry lessons to your front-country life What is failure and how do we move through it? Finding joy in the wilderness AND SO MUCH MORE --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wellnessinthewilderness/message

Welcome to SEASON 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast, offering short guided meditations designed for listening while walking your dog. This season is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been meditating most of her life and formally studying Zen Buddhism meditation over the last fifteen years. But her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, and she will give tips on how to do that responsibly. The goal of these guided meditations is to release distractions, reduce stress, and become present with your dog to strengthen your mutual connection.For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-intro Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This walking meditation has been designed to focus on breathing, ease your mind, relax your body, and bring attention to your dog. The reward will be a calming feeling that strengthens your connection together. Learn how to take your thoughts away from the distractions of everyday life and instead ground yourself in the present moment with your dog. Plus, it can be a way for us to better get in touch with the nature around us, wherever we are. Guided by Annette McGivney.For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-sharing-this-momentSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoor/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This advisory message provides guidance on how to safely prepare for an off-leash dog walk that protects dogs and wildlife, such as in a public park or nature reserve where it is permitted. It is important to have a reliable recall with your dog so that they can come to you when called. Implementing training tools, like remote tech devices, can also help ensure reliable communication with your dog to signal cues for recall over long distances. Insights presented by award-winning outdoor journalist Annette McGivney.   For detailed show notes, visit dogwalkmeditation.com/episodes/s2-advisory-off-leash-dog-walksSeason 2 of the Dog Walk Meditation podcast is guided by Annette McGivney, who has been practicing meditation since she was young, finding calm while exploring the woods with her dog during a difficult childhood. Annette has studied Zen Buddhism for the last fifteen years, but her favorite contemplative practice is daily hikes outside in nature with her dog running off-leash, as she has done all her life. Annette is also an award-winning journalist and book author. She is the  Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and contributes articles to Outside Magazine, New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and more. Her reporting covers investigations of environmental issues, the rights of indigenous peoples, and the outdoors/hiker lifestyle. She has written several books connected to life outdoors, and her most recent book, Pure Land, won the National Outdoor Book Award. This show is a spinoff series of the Dog Save The People podcast, which features uplifting interview stories about how life is better with a dog. Both shows are original podcast series created by As It Should Be Productions.FEATURED LINKSDog Walk Meditation websiteGuidance on Off-Leash Dog WalksAnnette McGivney websiteAnnette McGivney on InstagramDog Save The People websiteDog Save The People on InstagramDog Save The People on FacebookDog Save The People on TwitterDog Save The People interview with Annette McGivney

This week we are thrilled to have Gabaccia Moreno joining us for a conversation about all the things - People Over Profit (inspired by our panel at Outdoor Retailer), doing life (and business) differently, paying people what they're worth, the Outdoorist Oath, and so much more! We recorded this episode together in the van in a parking lot in Salt Lake City - one of our first in-person interviews in awhile - and the joy we're sharing is palpable. Settle in for a great chat that will leave your cheeks hurting from smiling so hard, and inspired by the possibilities of business and life done differently. IN THIS EPISODE: We catch up with Gabaccia and take a walk down memory lane, recounting how we originally connected and how life has brought us full-circle Doing Business Differently: How the Outdoorist Oath is spreading the wealth, extending opportunities to the community “You can't put a price on the work we do” (at the Outdoorist Oath and Hiking My Feelings) Doing Life Differently: honoring the call of the great outdoors and downsizing to maximize living life on our own terms, not merely exchanging our time for money to help pay a landlord's mortgage Sponsors Who Walk the Walk: Why we're stoked to work with Sawyer And more! ABOUT OUR GUEST: Gabaccia Moreno is a first-generation Mexican-American multimedia storyteller, consultant, and passionate outdoor advocate. She holds a B.A. in Theater and Anthropology from SUNY College at Buffalo and an M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University. Growing up visiting the Maya forest gave her an appreciation for the land and its wildlife at an early age. , one that prevails today. Her works, whether artistic, creative, or entrepreneurial, have always intersected with the social and environmental issues that surround her.  She currently serves as the Executive Director of The Outdoorist Oath, an organization creating educational tools and models to help and encourage people to become allies for planet, inclusion, and adventure. She's the Director of Social Responsibility on the board of Hiking My Feelings and sits on the Joshua Tree National Park Association Diversity Council. Gabaccia has also served as National Monuments Fellow (via The Wyss Foundation) at Nuestra Tierra Conservation Project, where she worked on initiatives to ensure historically and deliberately excluded communities have access to the process of protecting our lands and waters. Other credits include contributions to Backpacker Magazine, hosting her own Live conversation series named Exploring Responsibly and Explorando Responsablemente on Instagram, and being the 2021 resident host for the She Explores Podcast. In her free time, you'll find her writing, advising businesses and nonprofits, or adventuring outside, probably taking photos, fishing, backpacking, hiking, practicing yoga, or conspiring with friends to make the outdoors more welcoming for all. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wellnessinthewilderness/message

Maggie Slepian is a Montana-based writer and editor with a decade of gear-testing experience. She's an avid backpacker, bikepacker, climber, horseback rider, skier, and mountain biker. Maggie has covered thousands of miles on long-distance trails and bike routes. As a writer, her work has been featured in Outside, Runner's World, and Backpacker Magazine. Maggie's Website: https://www.maggieslepian.com/ Maggie's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggie_slepian/?hl=en *** Great Backpacking Gear (Support the Podcast): https://bit.ly/3PswpQi #maggieslepian #backpacking #outdoorvitals #bikepacking

Stephanie Vermillion is a professional travel journalist and photographer who has traveled the globe, writing about her adventures for brands like National Geographic, Outside Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, CNN Travel, Afar, Travel and Leisure, and more. In this episode, Stephanie shares with us some tips on landing writing gigs surrounding photography and travel, as well as practical writing advice. We talk about things like how to find your voice in writing, figuring out a good angle for a story, pitching an editor, and more.With so many publications out there, there really is a gig for everyone if you know how to write, take photos, and send a quality pitch. You'll learn all of it in today's podcast.Links from this Podcast:Stephanie's WebsiteA Night to Remember on the Greenland Ice SheetAfter My Father Died, I Found Him Again on KilimanjaroThere's a New Way to Tour the Amazon Rainforest — By CraneGotham Writers WorkshopsPomodoro Chrome ExtensionGrammarlyIf you are serious about becoming better at photography, the fastest way to do so is by joining me for an in-person workshop. Check my current workshop listings here.If you're serious about becoming better at photography, the fastest way to do so is by joining me for an in-person workshop. Check my current workshop listings here.Find FREE photography tutorials on my YouTube channel.

 https://slasrpodcast.com/   SLASRPodcast@gmail.com  Welcome to the Sounds Like a Search and Rescue Podcast! Also known as SLASR. Join an experienced search and rescue volunteer and his friend as they discuss all things related to hiking and search and rescue in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This week we are joined by Gwenn Stratton. Gwenn is a prolific local hiker who can often be seen along the steeper and most challenging trails in the White Mountains and beyond. Gwenn is kind enough to sit in and talk about some of her favorite hikes, she will share her tips for route planning and will take us along to some of the slides, gullies and tougher routes in the Whites. We will also talk about hiking with kids and many other topics.  All this plus we recap the 48 Peaks - Longest Day event at Reklis, It's bike week in New Hampshire, barefoot hiking, dogs eating stuff they are not supposed to eat, backpack advice and recent search and rescue news including multiple rescues in New Hampshire, kids surviving 40 days in the jungle and a hiker goes missing just in time to miss his court date This weeks Higher Summit Forecast Window Cling Order Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScAWSpyB3_6IbQF84DaSkJ1KdlUzQkY6DDNM2S-8axYK98NyQ/viewform   Topics Higher Summits Forecast Dehydrated meals Gear talk - Umbrella Hats and Backpacking packs Laconia bike week in NH Barefoot hiker guy almost done with the 4000 Footers Harvard Morgue manager selling body parts to weirdos Guest of the week - Welcome Gwenn Recent Search and Rescue News   Show Notes Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews SLASR Merchandise SLASR LinkTree MWOBS reports snowiest June in 91 years of record keeping. Umbrella hats  Backpacker Magazine comes out with their top backpacks Compare to Section Hiker Top Backpacks Hiker tackles the 48, barefoot! Harvard Morgue Manager Charged with Selling Body Parts Body parts being sold out of Harvard Store in Salem used body parts for their dolls More Dolls Children survive 40 days in jungle after plane crash Woman dies trying to save teen who slipped near a waterfall Update - found deceased, looks like a slip and fall Missing hiker in Olympic National Park Update - he is found after a self rescue Reel Brook Trail rescue Injured hiker carried down Rattle River Trail Injured hiker on Flume Slide Trail Lost hiker in Sharon   10 Essentials Links https://www.nps.gov/articles/10essentials.htm  https://americanhiking.org/resources/10essentials/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Essentials  https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/ten-essentials.html  https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/outdoor-resources/the-10-essentials-what-to-pack-for-a-backcountry-hike/  https://www.mountaineers.org/blog/what-are-the-ten-essentials    Sponsors and Partners Mount Washington Higher Summits Forecast Bay Slate Coasters Vaucluse - Sweat less. Explore more. – Vaucluse Gear Alzheimer's Association - 48 Peaks Seek The Peak Website

When people overreact and freak you out.While he said he's done with playing football, there's still a way for Tom Brady to come back and play in the NFL. And since he's going to be a minority owner of the Las Vegas Raiders, that's the team he'd play for.Will Ferrell is the Dwayne Johnson of comedies, and he's going to play John Madden in an upcoming movie.I make my inaugural attempt at a John Madden impression.Backpacker Magazine is helping get the word out that the Colorado wilderness has a human poop problem.Terminator style, self healing skin will have a huge impact with the adult industry. I do an impression of a broken sexbot.

Marinel M. de Jesus, Esq. is a former civil rights lawyer from Washington, DC, who turned her passion for hiking into a full-time endeavor as a social entrepreneur, solutions-focused journalist, and speaker. She is the founder of the award-winning media platform, Brown Gal Trekker, and mountain trekking enterprise, Equity Global Treks, both of which aim to elevate the status and roles of women and indigenous communities in the outdoor and travel industries. Marinel is a full-time global mountain nomad and travels to mountain destinations regularly to explore adventure travel initiatives that are community-led and/or focused on female leadership in the industry. In 2019, she founded the non-profit human rights organization, The Porter Voice Collective, which aims to advocate for the human rights of porters in Peru, Nepal, and Tanzania and Workforce Equity Tourism as a form of sustainable tourism through the use of storytelling and all forms of media. Marinel has written for various outdoor & travel publications such as the Alpinist Magazine, Outside, Fodor's, Backpacker Magazine, Huffpost, and Adventure Journal. She was a Board Member of the American Hiking Society & JEDI Committee Chair from 2020-2022 and a Brand Ambassador for Osprey & AKU Trekking Shoes. To learn more about Marinel de Jesus, Brown Gal Trekker, Equity Global Treks, & The Porter Voice Collective: IG: https://www.instagram.com/browngaltrekker/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BrownGalTrekker Twitter: https://twitter.com/bgtexplorations To learn more about The Porter Voice Collective, please go to: https://theportervoicecollective.org/ The film KM82: The Porter Voices of Peru's Camino Inca is having an advance screening from May 25th-June 8th. To view a private screening of the film, please fill out this registration form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd3LreIMSouDbtUnM53s-XADkDXWxXKbyHuO6Ddv-RsZSRUVw/viewform

Alex Messenger continues our proud tradition of featuring guests who have improbably survived attacks by wild animals! he's a a Minnesota-based, author, marketer and photographer who, at seventeen, was mauled by a grizzly bear - and lived to tell the tale.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We've written about the Spearhead Traverse before as The Best Worst Ski Trip Ever. But in this story, we explore the challenges of neurological illness in the backcountry. Backpacker Magazine's former Editor-in-Chief Dennis Lewon, shares his personal journey battling a rare brain disease while backcountry skiing on a glacier in British Columbia. From navigating double vision on a treacherous ski trail to overcoming a neurological condition in the wilderness, this episode is a testament to the power of determination and "there's nothing going slow can't fix". You can see a transcript of this story here.

Nicole Snell is an award-winning international speaker, facilitator and self-defense expert specializing in sexual assault prevention education, gender-based violence prevention, and empowerment. She is the CEO of Girls Fight Back, Founder of Outdoor Defense and Lead Instructor with both IMPACT Personal Safety and IMPACT Global. Nicole speaks to gender inclusive groups at colleges, high schools, Fortune 500 companies, corporations, the US Military, outdoor groups, women's retreats, and more both domestically and abroad. Nicole is a credentialed Empowerment Self-Defense Professional and an NACP Credentialed Victim Advocate. She has been featured on over 30 podcasts and has been interviewed for Women's Health Magazine, Runner's World, Outside Magazine, and Backpacker Magazine. She is an experienced solo traveler, outdoors enthusiast, and is an adventure leader for the Los Angeles non-profit, Black Girls Trekkin'. Nicole is committed to ending violence in all of its forms and strives to empower people with the skills to live without limits! Find Nicole on instagram Check out Nicoles website Find me on instagram Check out my services + learn about working with me!

Travis Macy is a finisher of over 130 ultra endurance events in over 17 countries, Travis Macy is a speaker, author, coach, and professional endurance athlete. Travis and his dad, Mark, co-authored the book; A Mile At A Time. An inspiring memoir about a their journey together competing in the World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji despite one of them battling Alzheimer's. This book is set to release March 14th 2023. Travis is also the author of The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion's 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life. Macy's racing and adventure exploits have been covered by The New York Times, ABC, Penthouse Magazine, Runner's World, Adventure Sports Magazine, Competitor Magazine, UltraRunning Magazine, Trail Runner Magazine, and Breathe Magazine, among others. Travis' writing circulates widely, and recent outlets include UltraRunning Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Trail Runner Magazine, Sleepmonsters.com, ColoradoRunner.com, Colorado Serenity, and iRunfar.com. Travis has been a sponsored athlete for 20 years and has represented a variety of industry leaders, including Merrell, Salomon, Spyder, Nike, Zanfel, Eastern Mountain Sport and many more. Travis retired as a high school teacher to found and run a successful education consulting firm, Macy College Consulting, with his wife. He applies the same best practices for instruction, communication, learning, and improvement with the businesses, executives, and adult endurance athletes he coaches. You don't want to miss this amazing episode as we discuss not only his adventures, but his challenges helping his dad. Dad Up! Dad Up YouTube: https://youtube.com/c/DadUpPodcast Dad Up Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dad-up-podcast/id1486764562 Dad Up Website: https://www.daduptribe.com/ Dad Up Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daduppodcast/ Dad Up LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/Daduptribe Travis Macy Website: http://www.travismacy.com Travis Macy Instagram: https://instagram.com/travismacy Travis Macy Book: A Mile at a Time: A Father and Son's Inspiring Alzheimer's Journey of Love, Adventure, and Hope Travis Macy YouTube: https://youtube.com/@travismacy3 Travis Macy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/travis-macy/33/76/926 Travis Macy Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/10153261850686325 --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/daduppodcast/support

When Charlie Janssen was just ten miles into his Appalachian Trail thru-hike in 2012, he wondered what it would be like to complete a Calendar Year Triple Crown. He found out in 2022, and shares his story with us. Charlie's thoughts eventually solidified and the planning began. His pragmatic approach and never-give-up attitude are clear in our conversation, yet this is still an epic adventure and one that so few people have managed to complete. Charlie is only the thirteenth to complete it. He has so many links to follow if you'd like to dive further into his remarkable achievement. Here's the list: Backpacker Magazine-https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/meet-the-high-school-teacher-who-finished-the-entire-triple-crown-in-a-calendar-year/ Kansas City NPR-https://www.kcur.org/podcast/up-to-date/2022-11-25/a-kansas-city-native-conquered-the-countrys-longest-trails-and-earned-hikings-triple-crown Action News Now-https://www.actionnewsnow.com/news/chico-hiker-conquers-7-500-mile-calendar-year-triple-crown/article_fa2a0d60-96d3-11ed-866d-db2e785a2b17.html John Freakin' Muir Podcast-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgeyJhACgpY Vail Daily-https://www.vaildaily.com/sports/janssens-journey-eagle-valley-cross-country-coach-is-attempting-trail-triple-crown/ Vail Daily-https://www.vaildaily.com/sports/janssen-hits-snow-on-appalachian-trail/ Vail Daily-https://www.vaildaily.com/sports/janssen-completes-pacific-crest-trail/ Vail Daily-https://www.vaildaily.com/news/charlie-janssen-completes-7412-mile-calendar-year-trail-triple-crown/ Vail Daily-https://www.vaildaily.com/sports/the-top-5-local-sports-stories-of-2022/ County 10 News, Lander, WY-https://county10.com/distance-hiker-who-passed-through-lander-completes-calendar-year-triple-crown-hiked-appalachian-pacific-crest-continental-divide-trails/ Active NorCal-https://www.activenorcal.com/chico-hiker-completes-coveted-7500-mile-triple-crown-in-one-calendar-year/ Pitt State Magazine-https://www.pittstate.edu/gorillaconnection/2022/01/grads-goal-hike-nations-three-longest-trails-in-365-days.html Pitt State Magazine-https://www.pittstate.edu/gorillaconnection/2022/11/grad-completes-calendar-year-triple-crown.html Black Hills Pioneer-https://www.bhpioneer.com/local_news/former-bhsu-athlete-completes-calendar-year-triple-crown/article_a8eecf5a-7d9a-11ed-ac0f-07d33e6519f7.html Hays Post-https://www.hdnews.net/2022/02/05/blazing-a-trail/ Four States Homepage-https://www.fourstateshomepage.com/local-news/psu-alum-attempts-to-hike-the-triple-crown-in-one-calendar-year/ Our Mighty Blue Class of 2023 is now fully fleshed out. It's only the hike that needs to be completed now!! This week, we catch up with Mark Carpenter, who begins next week, while Carl Bergquist will be on the trail, at Amicalola Falls, while many of you are listening to the show on Thursday morning. Doctor Lynne gives us chapter and verse on dealing with the dreaded blister when you're out there. Don't forget, you can download a short document on any of the topics that Lynne has discussed in this series on the show by clicking on the link below. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CJ5llgK7FUnbKnbtbWlsP6v_4dNentVa?usp=sharing Two reminders this week. First, you can join me LIVE tonight (March 2) on Jester's Section Hiker podcast for an exciting announcement. Just click on the link below as we go on air. https://youtube.com/live/Q88Nmojeo_w Second, if any of you are in the vicinity of Amicalola Falls State Park this coming weekend, March 5, you can see me present at the AT Kick Off at 10:30 Sunday morning. My subject is “The Adventure of a Lifetime.” If you'd like to find out more about "Then The Hail Came," check out George's website at https://georgesteffanos.webador.com/. You can also find George's book on Amazon at this link. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09QFG4ZR6. If you like what we're doing on the Hiking Radio Network, and want to see our shows continue, please consider supporting us with either a one-off or monthly donation. You'll find the donate button on each Hiking Radio Network page at https://www.hikingradionetwork.com. If you prefer NOT to use PayPal, you can now support us via check by mailing it to Mighty Blue Publishing, PO Box 6161, Sun City Center, FL 35751. Any support is gratefully received. You can also support our shows by visiting our online "Merch" store. Check it out at https://hrntradingpost.com/, or click on the store button on our network website at https://www.hikingradionetwork.com. If you'd like to take advantage of my book offer (all three of my printed hiking books–with a personal message and signed by me–for $31, including postage to the United States) send a check payable to Mighty Blue Publishing at the address just above.

Trail EAffect with Christine Byl of Interior Trails LLC - Trail Building in Alaska #111 How Christine got into Trail Building What drew Christine to Glacier National Park and the Trail Crew What drew Christine and her husband Gabe to Alaska Founding Interior Trails with her husband Gabe Types of Projects / Work that Interior Trails takes on Using Helicopters for logistics to get both crew members and materials into work sites Recounting some of her early years of Trail Building compared to what it is today Christine's perspective of the PTBA when she first got involved to where it is today How the PTBA provides a culture of professionalism 2023 International Trails Summit in Reno, NV Christine as a board member of the PTBA The importance of Visibility Women in Trail Building Dawn Packard Women's Gathering at the 2022 Sustainable Trails Conference Favorite Tool(s) that Christine has for Trail Building Christine's book: Dirt Work Coming from Grand Rapid's MI Advice from Christine Closing Comments and Thank You's Christine's Bio: Christine Byl, co-owner of Interior Trails, LLC, is a writer and a trail builder of 27 years. After 12 years working on federal trail crews in Glacier NP, Chugach NF and Denali NP, in 2008 Christine and her husband Gabe Travis founded Interior Trails, specializing in sustainable trail design, layout, construction, consulting and training. Clients across Alaska include the Muni of Anchorage, State of Alaska's DNR, Alaska State Parks, Student Conservation Assoc., Alaska Trails, National Park Service, and many others, as well as international partnerships in Argentina and Canada. For further information about Interior Trails, visit www.interior-trails.com. Christine's first book, Dirt Work: An Education in the Woods is about trail crews, tools, wild places, and labor, and has been selected for many "Best of" lists including by Backpacker Magazine. A new novel is due out in March: Lookout, set in NW Montana which she called home for many years. For information about books, teaching, and keynote speaking, please visit www.christinebyl.com. Christine lives on a few acres of tundra north of Denali National Park and spends as much time as possible exploring via foot, bike, ski, boat and dog. Links: Interior Trails LLC: https://www.interior-trails.com/ Christine Byl: http://www.christinebyl.com/ Dirt Work on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Dirt-Work-Education-Christine-Byl/dp/0807033278 Professional Trail Builders Association: https://www.trailbuilders.org/ 2023 International Trails Summit: https://web.cvent.com/event/24d42cc6-9b01-4aad-8cb7-425826bc429c/summary   This Podcast has been edited and produced by Evolution Trail Services Trail EAffect Show Links: Trail Effect Podcast Website: www.traileaffectpodcast.com Contact Josh at evolutiontrails@gmail.com Support Trail EAffect through donations at: https://www.patreon.com/traileaffect You can also reach out and donate via PayPal or other means if you feel so inclined to do so.

Travis Macy is a professional endurance athlete, having finished over 130 ultra endurance events in 17 countries. He's an author, coach and speaker. He is the author of The Ultra Mindset: An Endurance Champion's 8 Core Principles for Success in Business, Sports, and Life, and has a new book coming out in March called A Mile at a Time. Travis's racing resume includes mountain bike races, road runs, adventure racing, snowshoeing, skiing, kayaking and more.  His writing has been published across several publications including UltraRunning Magazine, Backpacker Magazine and Trail Runner Magazine.   In addition to being a sponsored athlete and writer, he is also a coach and founded a successful education consulting firm, Macy College Consulting, with his wife, and works with businesses, executives, and adult endurance athletes. This week, Sonya and Travis tackle his racing escapades, embracing training, his experience with his dad's Alzheimers, and redefining expectations throughout your career. Key Takeaways: Travis's favorite racing stories Embracing ups and downs Mental training - and embracing every aspect of training Managing his dad's Alzheimers How to define success and what is good enough Who you are as a competitor if you're not standing on podiums Intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation Addressing the negative stories you tell yourself Looking at The Ultra Mindset seven years later Taking on and excelling at new sports Links Learn more about Travis Check out Sonya's appearance on Travis's podcast here

Rue McKenrick is a long-distance backpacker and the Executive Director of The American Perimeter Trail Conference. He grew up with the Appalachian Trail running through his backyard in Pennsylvania. After years of international backpacking, he was inspired to return to the US and complete the Triple Crown of backpacking, which includes the Pacific Crest, Continental Divide National Scenic Trails, and the Appalachian Trail. After the completion of the Triple Crown, he first conceived of the American Perimeter Trail as a way to see the entire outline of the US on a single epic journey. McKenrick moved to Bend, Oregon in 2010 and continued to hone his skills of climbing, skiing, trail running, and cycling and in 2019, he began the 12,000 mile scouting trek of the route for the American Perimeter Trail.  2 years later on October 8th, 2022, Rue had a triumphant return to Bend, Oregon where he completed the first thru-hike of the APT. Learn more about Rue and the APT:Instagram: @RuemckenrickAmericanperimetertrail.orgWrite up in Backpacker Magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/stories/thru-hikes/trail-stories/a-heros-journey/Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/adventure-sports-podcast/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

On this episode, we have a conversation with Lori Grace Bailey. Lori Grace Bailey is a professional wedding/portrait photographer who also enjoys chasing extreme weather and extraordinary skies. Lori's work has appeared in major publications and television outlets including the current issue (2022, Issue 3) of Cosmopolitan Magazine as well as the March/June 2021 issue of Backpacker Magazine. Lori is a brand ambassador for F-Stop Gear. Whether chasing supercells and tornados in the mid-west, haboobs in the southwest, or elusive sprites when conditions are right, Lori's passionate dedication of pursuing extreme weather allows her to consistently capture vivid and evocative imagery unique to her craft. Lori is also the director of Monsoon Con, an annual convention in Tucson, Arizona that brings together photographers and weather enthusiasts alike with an emphasis on storm chasing with success. Lori is a lightning strike survivor after being nearly killed by a bolt in 2001 in Arizona. Finally, Lori is a dedicated photographer whose work can be found on as digital collectibles on Sloika, Foundation and OpenSea. Lori is a founding member of BFF and Nvak Collective, a DEIBA Advisor for HUG, and was a Community Ambassador for Habit Nest's Learn to Earn project The Phoenixes. Lori is a Hispanic woman dedicating much of her time utilizing the power of social audio to elevate artists by hosting Rug Radio: ELEVATE! Twitter Spaces focused on supporting and onboarding women, lgbtqI+, and other underrepresented groups into the Web3 space. Lori's limited edition works are available on Sloika for collecting: https://sloika.xyz/lorigrace.eth/high-hopes https://sloika.xyz/lorigrace.eth/high-voltage Our new show, 1/1: Conversations with Artists, highlights great artists venturing into the web3 space. Sloika is a curated photography NFT marketplace, focusing on the community, code and design. Our mission is to empower creators to build meaningful connections with fans. With Sloika, you can collect and own genuine photo art from limited series by amazing photographers around the world. ------------------------------------------ Website: https://sloika.xyz Twitter: https://twitter.com/sloikaxyz Telegram: https://t.me/sloikaxyz Discord: https://discord.gg/FJpYyVPBY2 Instagram: https://instagram.com/sloika.xyz Newsletter: https://sloika.xyz/subscribe

Hey Pod lovers. I'm your host Marie and  If you're joining us for the first time: Welcome! The Mastercast is a podcast recommendation show that brings you a brand new non-spoiler binge-worthy review every week of the best podcasts in a short and sweet 2-3 minute summary on everything you could want to know, from the number of hosts to on average how long you can expect each episode to be. New episodes come out every Wednesday. You can find the week's other reviews on the show's social on Instagram @themastercast and Twitter @mastercastpods. Thank you so much for helping me create this show! I really appreciate now on to This week's review which isLost in the Woods Podcast- No Spoilers!This is my new favorite podcast! I listened to all 92 episodes in a little over a week, and I know a podcast is golden when I can't stop listening to it. It's a true-crime(ish) indie podcast that focuses on missing and murdered hikers. Done by a mother, Marie, and Daugther, Maddi, it is straight to the point and fascinating. If you love Missing 411, bone-chilling true stories, or survival stories, this is the show for you. These stories will keep you holding your breath until the end. Both share a passion and interest in what they're talking about. Avid hikers themselves their experiences, their own experiences definitely add to the stories. There's also a rare interview or two so far. Sprinkle in are some murder cases to keep it fresh. They give new details on cases I've heard a dozen times and thought I knew. The script is usually shared by the two telling a narrative story with some light-hearted banter. Full disclosure: the two have been outsourcing research for some of the latest episodes due to time constraints. It's fairly common for successful podcasts to do and since most podcasters consider reading a wiki paragraph research,  I think it's fair to give them a break here. There is the occasional misspoken word by Maddi (although Marie has slipped up once or twice) but honestly, I find everything the two do as adorable. I could only dream of having a kid who wants to podcast with me someday. Who cares if Maddi isn't a total bookworm? Forgive the small hiccups and I promise it's worth it. The podcast has 4.4 stars out of 5 on Apple podcasts with 248 ratings and 103 written reviews. Episodes are on average about an hour and new ones come out usually about twice a month. The pair are also very active on Patreon. They truly care about their listeners and show it by moving chit-chat to the end, considering KIND inputs from fans, and having minimal ads. There's always just been the one ad at the beginning that is easy to skip. Side note: The harassment the pair face is absolutely ridiculous. I will never understand sending unsolicited inappropriate photos but doing it to this wholesome adorable podcast is grounds to fight me. I could write a dissertation on this show but I think you can tell how highly I recommend it. I hope it never ends. Similar pods: Location Unknown, National Park After Dark, and Out Alive by Backpacker Magazine. All right, guys, that's all for this week but remember if you want to see the cover art, sources or the written transcript for this episode be sure to check out the show notes. You can also send us an email at themastercastpodlist@gmail.com. There you can tell us if you have music you would like played on the show or submit a podcast to be recommended. This week's music came from Universal Music Productions. Remember to share the show with the pod lovers in your life and tune in next Monday. Thanks for listening.  Sources: Apple PodcastsPodchaserOwltail ★ Support this podcast ★

In this episode, Andrew chats with Backpacking Light Staff writer Mark Wetherington. Mark began backpacking in 2007 as a student at the University of Kentucky, and since then he's been exploring the southeast and the west on foot, bicycle, and skis. Mark's writing has appeared in Backpacker Magazine and Trail Groove Magazine in addition to Backpacking Light. Andrew and Mark chat about backpacking in the southeast, Mark's love of exploring the same place over and over again, Mark's favorite pieces he's written for Backpacking Light, and more. Click here for show notes and video version: https://backpackinglight.com/episode-63-mark-wetherington The extended version of this podcast is available for Unlimited Members on our website. Click here to become a member: https://backpackinglight.com/membership/ *** Help us keep this podcast AD-FREE *** Our podcast is 100% supported by Backpacking Light Members - please consider supporting us today by becoming a member so we can keep this channel AD-FREE! https://backpackinglight.com/membership/ *** Get the FREE Backpacking Light Handbook *** Want outdoor gear and skills info you can really trust? Get our Handbook - the resource you need to make intelligent decisions about gear, safety, comfort, and pack weight:  https://backpackinglight.com/newsletter/ *** Affiliate Disclosure *** https://backpackinglight.com/disclosure-letter/

Luna Adler talks to Jared about moving between fiction and non-fiction, Brooklyn College's unique novel-writing workshop aimed at accommodating the long form, the tension between a slow revision process and rapid MFA deadlines, and the benefit in recording one's writing time while allowing grace for a broad definition of writing time that may or may not include thinking time. Luna Adler is a Brooklyn-based writer and illustrator. She's currently an MFA candidate in fiction at Brooklyn College, where she was a recipient of the Truman Capote Fellowship. She is a fiction editor for The Brooklyn Review and a reader for Pigeon Pages. Her words, art, and comics have appeared or are forthcoming in Bon Appétit, Bust Magazine, Interview Magazine, Literary Hub, Gossamer, Autostraddle, Electric Literature, Backpacker Magazine, The Rumpus, The Belladonna Comedy, Hobart Pulp, and Lux Magazine, among others. Find her on Instagram @lunaadler or at lunaadler.com, where you can subscribe to her illustrated newsletter. MFA Writers is hosted by Jared McCormack and produced by Jared McCormack and Hanamori Skoblow. New episodes are released every two weeks. You can find more MFA Writers at MFAwriters.com. This episode was requested by Marcia Bronstein. Thank you for listening, Marcia! BE PART OF THE SHOW — Leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, or Podcast Addict. — Submit an episode request. If there's a program you'd like to learn more about, contact us and we'll do our very best to find a guest who can speak to their experience. — Apply to be a guest on the show by filling out our application. STAY CONNECTED Twitter: @MFAwriterspod Instagram: @MFAwriterspodcast Facebook: MFA Writers

Katie is a Creative Director focusing on Brand and Marketing Design. She helps her clients translate their voice and vision into strategic visual concepts that communicate clearly and inspire their audiences so they can hit all their business goals. She brings a background designing for Prevention, Men's Health, Women's Health, Organic Gardening, Organic Style and Runner's World Magazines. She also runs a household of 2 amazing kids with her husband while trying to figure out how to drastically cut the to-do list so they can eat dinner together every night, finally take that family vacation to Yosemite, and hang out by the pool, and sometimes the beach, as much as possible. Here's what we covered on the episode: Katie's Start in Design + Pursuing a Company She Believed In    How Katie and I met during a mastermind I used to do called, From Designer to Director - we worked together for a year and have stayed in touch ever since  I explain that Katie has the experience in the agency side that I've been craving the last few years and that it's been fun watching her evolve from an independent designer to a virtual agency owner Katie is here to share her traditional and nontraditional art/creative director experience and share how people can approach their marketing and design from a creative director's point of view to drive results     The first job Katie had in design was as a desktop publisher at a boutique agency that she worked at for 7 years - after that, she moved into publishing    How Katie originally received a BA in history but then went back to school for art  Katie shares that at the boutique agency, they did a lot of catalogs for pharmaceutical companies and that she was able to learn the entire process because she saw each part of the project through   When Katie decided to move on from the boutique agency, her goal was to only do design work  After the boutique agency, Katie worked for a publisher that had a book and magazine division - some of the biggest magazines at that point were Prevention and Men's Health - then eventually, Women's Health and Runner's World came out  The first project Katie worked on at the publisher was for Backpacker Magazine, and she says that the work was so beautiful that she thought she wanted to work there for the rest of her life  How Katie had originally applied for a job at the publisher but didn't get it, so they called her a couple of weeks later to hire her as an onsite freelancer for 2 weeks to do one job, but she ended up staying there for 8 years  Katie shares that she had been trying to work for this publishing company for years before working there, and because she kept following up, they eventually hired her  The whole goal for Katie was to work for a company she believed in, like the health and wellness publisher, while becoming a better designer  Katie shares that she got to do stuff for Betty Crocker, Al Gore's book, Flat Belly Diet - there was so much variety that really helped Katie learn all the different directions she could go  When looking for jobs, Katie believes if you are the right fit and it's the right time, it will work out, and if not, that's not the right place for you at that moment - understand that people are busy, it might have nothing to do with you; they're doing what they need to move in the direction that's right for them  Katie shares that she wanted to work at this publisher for at least 10 years before she started working there  Starting a Branding + Marketing Business  After having her 2nd son, Katie didn't know if she could do it all or if it made financial sense to be working at the publishing company, so she decided to leave and stay home with her kids for about 10 years   How Katie always knew she wanted to start her own business; she didn't know when, but in 2017/18, her kids were getting older, so she decided to play around with it and figure out what she wanted to do, which is when we met, while Katie was trying to figure it out   The first thing Katie did was figure out her own stuff, like creating a website, figuring out what she wanted to say and what she wanted to offer     When Katie first started her business, she started doing branding work for small clients to feel out if it made sense for her if she could help these people, and if her process was working - after that, she did some sales pages  Because Katie has so much experience, she started by looking at the things that frustrated her, and that was people designing things, but it has no cohesion with anything else they're putting out  Katie explains that although she loves doing lots of different things, she decided to do branding first because when people aren't focused on the overarching umbrella of their direction, what they're trying to say, do and how they want people to feel in every piece of their marketing, they miss something  Anything you give to a customer or use to try to sell your service, product, or business should have cohesion - this means your social media posts, website, deliverables, etc.  The concepts behind Katie's traditional editorial design and brand strategy are the same; she explains that everything has just moved digital now, but it's the same idea as with print  Katie explains that now, she works with mostly female entrepreneurs but will take on other clients if she feels they are a good fit and works on their branding and marketing  In Katie's business, they start by figuring out their branding, if they need it - Katie shares that one client had perfectly good branding but didn't know what to do with it to gain traction  Some of Katie's favorite things about having her own business are having control over her own time, who she works with, and being home and spending time with her family  Katie explains how she and her family had to navigate the pandemic with school and that it caused her to press pause on her business for a bit - now she feels like she's able to put herself out there again because things are a little more consistent with her kids  Now that her kids are older, Katie says she has more time than ever to work    Approaching Marketing Like a Creative Director + Katie's Offers Katie wants people who are running their business by themselves to understand that they are doing at least 5 jobs right now  A creative director is usually looking over the big picture; they're looking over copy and design - they aren't specifically doing it but are helping by giving direction on it   In the corporate world, you have an art director, copywriter, creative director, and other people who are looking at it from their point of view, so when you're running a business by yourself, Katie says to give yourself grace because it's a lot Sometimes clients will come to Katie, and sometimes she will reach out to potential clients because she believes in what they are doing - sometimes they want to work with her, and sometimes they don't, which is completely fine   If clients come to Katie with a brand they are happy with, she is more than happy to work with them on using that brand and designing marketing pieces for them  Other clients come to Katie because their brand is no longer working for them due to changes, so their brand needs to change to show what they're really doing now  Katie shares that she usually doesn't work with someone until they are 3 years in because it doesn't make sense for them to make that investment until they truly know what they're offering and what they want to put out there  If a client comes to Katie needing a rebrand, she will do the brand identity for them and says that her package has a couple of pieces of marketing  Katie starts by sending clients a lot of questions, then has a long conversation to go over all those questions because people change their minds and because she needs to fully understand what they're telling her, so she doesn't misinterpret it    When Katie is on the same page as her clients, there aren't as many issues moving forwards, and if there are, they fix them  After the brand identity, they work on the marketing pieces because some people don't know what to do when you hand them all the elements of the brand - the layout needs to be done well because if it's not, no one will read your stuff   Katie gets clients through relationship building as much as she can - she also reaches out to a lot of people and is finally getting her Instagram running again  People want to work with people that they like, which is why Katie says relationship building is so important While listening to a podcast, Katie heard a great quote, so she designed something with the quote and sent them an email of it, and posted it to their Facebook group - a few days later, Katie had a meeting set up with the person she had emailed for some opportunities to work with them and ended up designing a landing page for them Connect with Katie through her website or on Instagram     Links mentioned: Katie Seitzer Design  Connect with Katie on Instagram    Like what you heard?  Click here to subscribe + leave a review on iTunes. 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Barney "Scout" Mann is an experienced Pacific Crest Trail Thru-Hiker and also known as a Trail Angel.  Perhaps you've read about him in the New York Times or Backpacker Magazine.  His published book:  "Journeys North - The Pacific Crest Trail" could be on your bookshelf.  He has assisted countless thru-hikers literally get on the trail starting in southern California where they begin their long journey to Canada.  Today, he reveals what it means to be a Trail Angel, the challenges and benefits of the long hike and some cinnamon bear Zen. "Make wise decisions" and find Scout's book here or Barney "Scout" Mann website.  Tighten those shoulder straps...we're hikin' the PCT!

For this episode's special guest, we have paramedic Kevin Grange. He is also an award-winning freelance writer who talks about the medical field adventure and travel. We will talk about some of those adventures and travel and what it takes to work in the national parks. As a paramedic, He's got some very cool stories. And we're also getting up some tips with Spring Break ahead and outdoor adventure season coming about how to be safe in the outdoors. Let's jump right into this episode with Kevin. In this episode, you will learn:

https://slasrpodcast.com/  Welcome to the Sounds Like a Search and Rescue Podcast! Also known as SLASR.  Join an experienced search and rescue volunteer and his friend as they discuss all things related to hiking and search and rescue in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. This week we are joined by our friend Dave Dillon. Dave runs a successful YouTube Channel nd podcast called Chase the Summit where he highlights Trail and Ultra Running, Hiking, Climbing, Fitness Tech, and a variety of other topics including beer. We have a bunch of questions to cover with Dave about gear, running and hiking  tech. Later in the show, in preparation for shoulder season and warmer weather, Stomp is going to give us an overview of forest roads.  Dave Dillon's info Chase the Summit YouTube Chase the Summit Website Chase the Summit Podcast Chase the Summit Instagram Topics Nuclear War talk Guy Hikes the AT carrying a Leaf Blower and we share what weird item we would bring on the AT Moosilauke - Moose-a-lock or Moose-a-locky?  SAR Counterpoint to controversial '10 essentials' article Bombas Socks update Sponsor and Coffee Talk Beer Talk Recent Hikes - Tenney and Welch Dickey Crazy Owl Attack Incident in the Middlesex Fells Dave Dillon of Chase the Summit  Rockhopper Races - Mount Chocorua and Kilkenny Ridge Stomp's intro to forest roads Guy overdoses on caffeine powder   Show Notes Rek-lis Brewing Company Retail locations Apple Podcast link for 5 star reviews Backpacker Magazine's Misleading Article Minus 33 Stellwagen Beer Company Article about Owl that attacked Dave Rockhopper Races Chocorua Mountain Race Kilkenny Ridge Race DC Rainmaker Forest Road Status page - US Forest Service White Mountain Forest Roads and Gates Guy overdoses on Caffeine powder by miscalculating the amount to use (measures in grams instead of mg)   

Join Tracy as she interviews CREEK Stewart: Survival Instructor, Author, Host. Creek's life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by 1000′s of man-hours in the field. He has been featured on/in The TODAY Show, INSIDE EDITION, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Life Magazine, WGN-TV, WISH-TV 8, The Weather Channel, LIVING READY Magazine, American Survival Guide and countless radio and on-line events. He has contributed to the hugely popular men's interest blog ArtofManliness.com and his survival writings have been featured on 1000′s of web-sites including Huffington Post, MSN News, Lifehacker and The Daily Beast. Creek is the host of SOS: HOW TO SURVIVE on The Weather Channel and the author of • Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit • The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide • Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle • Build the Perfect Bug Out Survival Skills • SURVIVAL HACKS • 365 Essential Survival Skills • STUCK: A survival short story • RUGOSA: A survival story from Omaha to London • And his newest book, The Disaster Ready Home. Links: http://www.creekstewart.com http://www.myapocabox.com http://www.survivalskillofthemonth.com http://www.survivalonthe7th.com http://www.willowhavenoutdoor.com Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Creek-Stewart/e/B0076LIRK6

Join Tracy as she interviews CREEK Stewart: Survival Instructor, Author, Host. Creek's life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by 1000′s of man-hours in the field. He has been featured on/in The TODAY Show, INSIDE EDITION, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Life Magazine, WGN-TV, WISH-TV 8, The Weather Channel, LIVING READY Magazine, American Survival Guide and countless radio and on-line events. He has contributed to the hugely popular men's interest blog ArtofManliness.com and his survival writings have been featured on 1000′s of web-sites including Huffington Post, MSN News, Lifehacker and The Daily Beast. Creek is the host of SOS: HOW TO SURVIVE on The Weather Channel and the author of • Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit • The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide • Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle • Build the Perfect Bug Out Survival Skills • SURVIVAL HACKS • 365 Essential Survival Skills • STUCK: A survival short story • RUGOSA: A survival story from Omaha to London • And his newest book, The Disaster Ready Home. Links: http://www.creekstewart.com http://www.myapocabox.com http://www.survivalskillofthemonth.com http://www.survivalonthe7th.com http://www.willowhavenoutdoor.com Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Creek-Stewart/e/B0076LIRK6

Lori Grace Bailey is a storm chaser. An extraordinary photographer, she chases supercell storms and tornados in the mid-west, haboobs or sandstorms in the southwest, and elusive sprites, creating breathtaking photographs and timelapse images of these incredible phenomena. Her work has appeared in major publications and television outlets including Backpacker Magazine, and she is a brand ambassador for F-Stop Gear. Lori is a Hispanic transwoman who also dedicates much of her time to elevating artists in NFT space, and is focused on supporting and onboarding women, non-binary, and trans-artists into the NFT community.

CREEK Stewart: Survival Instructor, Author, Host Creek's life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by 1000′s of man-hours in the field. He has been featured on/in The TODAY Show, INSIDE EDITION, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Life Magazine, WGN-TV, WISH-TV 8, The Weather Channel, LIVING READY Magazine, American Survival Guide, and countless radio and on-line events. He has contributed to the hugely popular men's interest blog ArtofManliness.com and his survival writings have been featured on 1000′s of websites including Huffington Post, MSN News, Lifehacker, and The Daily Beast. Creek is the host of SOS: HOW TO SURVIVE on The Weather Channel and the author of • Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit • The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide • Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle • Build the Perfect Bug Out Survival Skills • SURVIVAL HACKS • 365 Essential Survival Skills • STUCK: A survival short story • RUGOSA: A survival story from Omaha to London • And his newest book, The Disaster Ready Home. Links: http://www.creekstewart.com http://www.myapocabox.com http://www.survivalskillofthemonth.com http://www.survivalonthe7th.com http://www.willowhavenoutdoor.com Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Creek-Stewart/e/B0076LIRK6

CREEK Stewart: Survival Instructor, Author, Host Creek's life-long study of outdoor living and survival skills is backed by 1000′s of man-hours in the field. He has been featured on/in The TODAY Show, INSIDE EDITION, Fox & Friends, Men's Fitness Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Life Magazine, WGN-TV, WISH-TV 8, The Weather Channel, LIVING READY Magazine, American Survival Guide, and countless radio and on-line events. He has contributed to the hugely popular men's interest blog ArtofManliness.com and his survival writings have been featured on 1000′s of websites including Huffington Post, MSN News, Lifehacker, and The Daily Beast. Creek is the host of SOS: HOW TO SURVIVE on The Weather Channel and the author of • Build the Perfect Bug Out Bag: Your 72-Hour Disaster Survival Kit • The Unofficial Hunger Games Wilderness Survival Guide • Build the Perfect Bug Out Vehicle • Build the Perfect Bug Out Survival Skills • SURVIVAL HACKS • 365 Essential Survival Skills • STUCK: A survival short story • RUGOSA: A survival story from Omaha to London • And his newest book, The Disaster Ready Home. Links: http://www.creekstewart.com http://www.myapocabox.com http://www.survivalskillofthemonth.com http://www.survivalonthe7th.com http://www.willowhavenoutdoor.com Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com/Creek-Stewart/e/B0076LIRK6

Gregg founded Adventure Scientists in 2011 with a strong passion for both scientific discovery and exploration. National Geographic named Gregg an Adventurer of the Year in 2008 when he and a friend completed a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes Mountain Range. He was included on the Christian Science Monitor's 30 under 30 list in 2012, and the following year became a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his work with Adventure Scientists. In 2013, he was named a Backpacker Magazine "hero", in 2015, a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur and one of Men's Journal's "50 Most Adventurous Men." In 2017, he was named an Ashoka Fellow and in 2018 one of the Grist 50 "Fixers." Gregg was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020 and is a member of their Global Futures Council on Sustainable Tourism. Gregg holds a biology degree from Montana State University and a sociology degree from CU-Boulder. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2004. Please Support this Podcast by checking out our Sponsors: Mad River Botanticals 100% certified organic CBD products. The product is controlled from seed to end product by it's owners. Use code: EDGE22 to get 10% off all your orders. Shop here>>> EPISODE LINKS: Adventure Scientists  PODCAST INFO: Apple Podcasts: EDGE on Apple Podcasts  Spotify: EDGE on Spotify  RSS Feed: EDGE's RSS Feed SUPPORT & CONNECT Twitter: Follow Brandon on Twitter Instagram: Follow Brandon on Instagram LinkedIn: Follow Brandon on LinkedIn  

In episode 9 of the Outdoor Minimalist podcast, we will be discussing a hot topic in any part of the sustainability and zero-waste movement: single-use plastics. More specifically, we will be discussing the use of plastics on the production side of packaging with some limited discussion regarding consumer use of single-use plastics. To help me expand on this topic, I had the pleasure of talking to Steven Reinhold. Steven has worked within the outdoor industry for over a decade. He began his outdoor career with Big City Mountaineers' Summit for Someone program where he guided and recruited fundraising climbers whose efforts supported BCM's wilderness-mentoring programs. Steven has been an ambassador for multiple outdoor brands and currently serves as Backpacker Magazine's official Brand Ambassador. He created the online sensation #trashtag, a social media-based cleanup effort, which went viral in 2019 and has been used over 100 million times worldwide! Steven also founded The Appalachian Adventure Company, which has strong guiding-roots, but has since grown into a formidable Media/Marketing/Consulting company which works closely with organizations like Black Folks Camp Too, Leave No Trace, and the Southern Environmental Law Center. INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/outdoor.minimalist.book/ WEBSITE: https://www.theoutdoorminimalist.com/ PRE ORDER THE OUTDOOR MINIMALIST BOOK: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781493063994/Outdoor-Minimalist-Waste-Less-Hiking-Backpacking-and-Camping ------------------------ Connect with STEVEN: https://www.instagram.com/ramblin_reinhold/ APPALACHIAN ADVENTURE COMPANY: https://www.facebook.com/AppalachianAdventureCompany/ BLACK FOLKS CAMP TOO: https://www.instagram.com/blackfolkscamptoo/ Plastic Impact Alliance: https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/tag/plastic-impact-alliance/ Join the Plastic Impact Alliance: https://www.outsidebusinessjournal.com/issues/sustainability/packaging/how-to-join-plastic-impact-alliance/ About the #trashtagchallenge: https://www.cleanupnews.org/home/trash-tag-challenge Ever Green Adventure Foods: https://evergreenadventurefoods.com/ NoSo Patches: https://nosopatches.com/ Rerouted: https://rerouted.co/

Always fun when UTC Business School Entrepreneurship Hall of Famer - Dawson Wheeler can join me on DTB. We talked about money - time management - working with a friend/partner - dreaming vs doing - marketing - retail - hiring - podcasting - more! Who is Dawson: Co-Founder (along with Marvin Webb) of Rock/Creek Outfitters. They founded it in 1987 and sold it in 2018. Inducted into the UTC College of Business Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame. In November 2007, Rock/Creek was named one of the top 25 specialty outdoor retailers by Outdoor Business magazine. In 2009, SNEWS & Backpacker Magazine chose Rock/Creek as Retailer of the Year for Best Online Business. Dawson sits on a number of boards and is involved in a number of community programs. Current owner and host of Day Fire Podcast. www.dayfirepodcast.com Please consider supporting the podast by becoming a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/duringthebreakpodcast This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

Jessie Greger left her marketing job in order to take on the challenge of hiking the 2,500 miles of The Pacific Crest Trail, and against the advise of others, tackled the challenge while on a keto diet.  Jessie was told she would not make it more than a hundred miles before her diet would force her to quit and come off the trail.  Not only did Jessie sucked in completing this massive trek while maintaining a ketogenic metabolic state, she thrived in this endurance activity and went on to create the first, and currently the only keto backpacking meal company, Next Mile Meals. To follow Jessie check out the links below:Website / NEXT MILE MEALS: https://www.nextmilemeals.com?sca_ref=199966.bB30fkYonjFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessgregerInstagram: @nextmilemealsTwitter : @nextmilemealsBest Backpacking Foods of 2021 by Backpacker Magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/gear-reviews/the-best-backpacking-food-of-the-year/Books Mentioned on the show:Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail M. Francis: https://amzn.to/3pdw1G9Born to Run by Christopher McDougall: https://amzn.to/3fIErSxThe Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal: https://amzn.to/2RW7fy9Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: https://amzn.to/2RW7fy9The Keto Ice Cream Scoop by Carrie Brown: https://amzn.to/3wRCglp101 Keto Beverages by Carrie Brown: https://amzn.to/3fGPI62Products mentioned on the show:NEXT MILE MEALS: https://www.nextmilemeals.com?sca_ref=199966.bB30fkYonjKETO CHOW: https://shop.ketochow.xyz/?aff=81&ref=carriebrown&utm_source=link&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=carriebrown (10% discount)Redmond's Real Salt: https://shop.redmond.life?afmc=carriebrown  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)REDMOND LIFE: https://shop.redmond.life?afmc=carriebrown  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)FBOMB: fbomb.p7qb.net/gQyPB  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)FOUR SIGMATIC: https://foursigmatic.com/?rfsn=4050444.b20c14&discount=CARRIEBROWN  Code: CARRIEBROWN (15% discount)SUPERFAT: https://www.superfat.com/?rfsn=3433950.4605ce Code: CARRIE (15% disconut)Craftsman Cliff Roasters: https://craftsmancliffroasters.comAnthony's Butter Powder: https://amzn.to/3idosxKAnthony's Heavy Cream Powder: https://amzn.to/3uPzwU9Anthony's Collagen: https://amzn.to/3vN5EJEBulk Supplements Beef Protein: https://amzn.to/3yYZQhVTanka Pemmican Bars: https://amzn.to/3cdt0AtAltra Shoes: https://amzn.to/3uLN6baMerrell Shoes: https://amzn.to/3uU38jDTeton Sports: https://amzn.to/3uFdQu0Osprey Women's Backpacks: https://amzn.to/3idScu8Big Agnes: https://amzn.to/3fGLZp4Jet Boil: https://amzn.to/3z1q2ZEBRS Camp Stove: https://amzn.to/3ieAua2PeeWee Urination Device: https://amzn.to/34HXhTKKeto Granola and hot Cereal Recipes by Carrie Brown:https://carriebrown.com/?s=granolahttps://carriebrown.com/?s=porridge Be sure to rate, subscribe and leave a comment!To support the show and gain access to private groups, rewards, swag, and become a Kitchen or Fatty Joe Show Rockstar, use these links:http://www.patreon.com/thefattyjoeshowor http://www.patreon.com/carriebrownCheck out our website at http://www.thefattyjoeshow.comIf you want to sport some Fatty Joe Show swag like t-shirts coffee mugs and other cool items, go to:https://www.zazzle.com/collections/the_fatty_joe_show-119044829655147361?rf=238386382098264295For recipes, articles, product discounts, Cookbooks, and Cooking Masterclasses go to: http://www.carriebrown.comCarrie Brown Masterclasses:

Jessie Greger left her marketing job in order to take on the challenge of hiking the 2,500 miles of The Pacific Crest Trail, and against the advise of others, tackled the challenge while on a keto diet.  Jessie was told she would not make it more than a hundred miles before her diet would force her to quit and come off the trail.  Not only did Jessie sucked in completing this massive trek while maintaining a ketogenic metabolic state, she thrived in this endurance activity and went on to create the first, and currently the only keto backpacking meal company, Next Mile Meals. To follow Jessie check out the links below:Website / NEXT MILE MEALS: https://www.nextmilemeals.com?sca_ref=199966.bB30fkYonjFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessgregerInstagram: @nextmilemealsTwitter : @nextmilemealsBest Backpacking Foods of 2021 by Backpacker Magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/gear-reviews/the-best-backpacking-food-of-the-year/Books Mentioned on the show:Bliss(ters): How I Walked from Mexico to Canada One Summer by Gail M. Francis: https://amzn.to/3pdw1G9Born to Run by Christopher McDougall: https://amzn.to/3fIErSxThe Incomplete Book of Running by Peter Sagal: https://amzn.to/2RW7fy9Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker: https://amzn.to/2RW7fy9The Keto Ice Cream Scoop by Carrie Brown: https://amzn.to/3wRCglp101 Keto Beverages by Carrie Brown: https://amzn.to/3fGPI62Products mentioned on the show:NEXT MILE MEALS: https://www.nextmilemeals.com?sca_ref=199966.bB30fkYonjKETO CHOW: https://shop.ketochow.xyz/?aff=81&ref=carriebrown&utm_source=link&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=carriebrown (10% discount)Redmond's Real Salt: https://shop.redmond.life?afmc=carriebrown  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)REDMOND LIFE: https://shop.redmond.life?afmc=carriebrown  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)FBOMB: fbomb.p7qb.net/gQyPB  Code: carriebrown (15% discount)FOUR SIGMATIC: https://foursigmatic.com/?rfsn=4050444.b20c14&discount=CARRIEBROWN  Code: CARRIEBROWN (15% discount)SUPERFAT: https://www.superfat.com/?rfsn=3433950.4605ce Code: CARRIE (15% disconut)Craftsman Cliff Roasters: https://craftsmancliffroasters.comAnthony's Butter Powder: https://amzn.to/3idosxKAnthony's Heavy Cream Powder: https://amzn.to/3uPzwU9Anthony's Collagen: https://amzn.to/3vN5EJEBulk Supplements Beef Protein: https://amzn.to/3yYZQhVTanka Pemmican Bars: https://amzn.to/3cdt0AtAltra Shoes: https://amzn.to/3uLN6baMerrell Shoes: https://amzn.to/3uU38jDTeton Sports: https://amzn.to/3uFdQu0Osprey Women's Backpacks: https://amzn.to/3idScu8Big Agnes: https://amzn.to/3fGLZp4Jet Boil: https://amzn.to/3z1q2ZEBRS Camp Stove: https://amzn.to/3ieAua2PeeWee Urination Device: https://amzn.to/34HXhTKKeto Granola and hot Cereal Recipes by Carrie Brown:https://carriebrown.com/?s=granolahttps://carriebrown.com/?s=porridge Be sure to rate, subscribe and leave a comment!To support the show and gain access to private groups, rewards, swag, and become a Kitchen or Fatty Joe Show Rockstar, use these links:http://www.patreon.com/thefattyjoeshowor http://www.patreon.com/carriebrownCheck out our website at http://www.thefattyjoeshow.comIf you want to sport some Fatty Joe Show swag like t-shirts coffee mugs and other cool items, go to:https://www.zazzle.com/collections/the_fatty_joe_show-119044829655147361?rf=238386382098264295For recipes, articles, product discounts, Cookbooks, and Cooking Masterclasses go to: http://www.carriebrown.comCarrie Brown Masterclasses:

Liz Thomas is a professional hiker, speaker, and outdoor writer who held the women's self-supported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail from 2011-2015. Called a "thru-hiking legend" by Outside Magazine, Liz has also hiked 20+ long distance trails including the Triple Crown of Hiking (AT, Pacific Crest Trail, and Continental Divide Trail) and first known traverses of the Wasatch Range and Chinook Trail. Her innovative urban thru-hikes of 14 cities led The Guardian to call her “The Queen of Urban Hiking.” Liz is a former staff writer for the New York Times/Wirecutter and current Editor-in-Chief for the outdoor web-magazine Treeline Review as well as contributing editor and columnist of “Ask a Thru-hiker” for Backpacker Magazine. She's the author of Long Trails: Mastering the Art of the Thru-hike, which received the 2017 National Outdoor Book Award for Best Instructional book with judges calling it destined to become the “Bible of the Sport.” Discussed in this episode: --Barriers to entry in thru-hiking --The story of how Liz got her trail name, Snorkel --Urban thru-hiking --The ALDHA West video on Liz's Seattle urban hike --How urban settings interact with redlining, race, class, gender, etc. --The Trust for Public Land --NYC playgrounds thru-hike --Inman 300 trail --Sign petition to support the Parks, Jobs, and Equity Act --Truffle Pigs Bistro --Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong --Quote: “I had spent a lot of unnecessary money and pain learning about thru-hiking the hard way, and yet, thru-hiking had still changed my life and rewired me into a much more emotionally stable and happier person… I really wanted to share that joy with others while also minimizing the barriers to entry that I experienced.” --Follow Liz: www.eathomas.com or @lizthomashiking. --–Follow Social Sport: Website, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter –-Subscribe to the Social Sport Newsletter *This episode is sponsored by OPE Running. Go to operunning.com and use code SOCIALSPORT for 15% off your order. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/socialsport/support

Eli Bernstein joins the podcast to talk (nerd out) about backpacking gear. In the conversation, we chat about Backpacker Magazine, how he ended up there, how they review and test gear, and general tips for consumers when picking gear.   Eli has worked as Backpacker's gear editor for four years. He spends most of his time trying to hike, ski, and climb in scenic places with as few people around as possible, all the while testing gear and not trying to fall too in love with it.   I found Eli's enthusiasm and knowledge about gear a really engaging listen, and I think you'll pick up a few nuggets on what you may need to pay more attention to in your next gear purchase. Plus, his trails and ales selection has already been marked on my hiking to-do list.  

BGBS 070: Gregg Treinish | Adventure Scientists | Moving at a Human PaceGregg founded Adventure Scientists in 2011 with a strong passion for both scientific discovery and exploration. National Geographic named Gregg an Adventurer of the Year in 2008 when he and a friend completed a 7,800-mile trek along the spine of the Andes Mountain Range. He was included on the Christian Science Monitor's 30 under 30 list in 2012, and the following year became a National Geographic Emerging Explorer for his work with Adventure Scientists. In 2013, he was named a Backpacker Magazine “hero”, in 2015, a Draper Richards Kaplan Entrepreneur and one of Men's Journal's “50 Most Adventurous Men.” In 2017, he was named an Ashoka Fellow and in 2018 one of the Grist 50 “Fixers.” Gregg was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020 and is a member of their Global Futures Council on Sustainable Tourism. Gregg holds a biology degree from Montana State University and a sociology degree from CU-Boulder. He thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2004. In this episode, you'll learn…The creativity, optimism, and persistence required of expeditions translate very well into entrepreneurship and keeping a business profitable over time. Adventure is pursuing passion and pushing your personal boundaries in the outdoors. Quotes[31:05] Adventure is pursuing passion in the outdoors. It's certainly outdoor sport based, but that can be hiking for some people and just adventuring into a place you haven't been before to look at birds, or it can be climbing peaks and skiing down. It's pursuing your own boundaries in the outdoors. [41:08] The cool thing about expeditions for me is not like this, “Ooh, adrenaline-seeking.” That's not my type of Expedition. It's persistence, it's creativity, it's problem-solving. It's “you're in this sh!tty situation, how you can get yourself out?” And it's avoiding those situations to begin with. I think that is exactly what running a business is. [44:09] We've had a tremendous impact on a number of different fields, from antibiotic resistance to microplastics, to improving crop yields, to helping to restore and preserve species that are extirpated from ecosystems. And it's been amazing what we've been able to accomplish in 10 short years, and I'm so proud of the impacts that we've already had. But I'm always thinking about how we do that on a bigger scale, and how we make sure that the data we've collected and the data we will collect are going to have as much impact on as many lives, human and otherwise as possible. ResourcesWebsite: www.adventurescientists.org LinkedIn: Gregg Treinish Instagram: @adventurescientists Facebook: Adventure Scientists Have a Brand Problem? We can help.Book your no-obligation, 15-minute Wildstory Brand Clarity Call now. Learn about our Brand Audit and Strategy process Identify if you need a new logo or just a refresh Determine if your business has a branding problem See examples of our work and get relevant case studies See if branding is holding your business back and can help you get to the next level Book Your FREE Brand Clarity Call Podcast TranscriptGregg Treinish 0:02 So we got a call. Three weeks after we gave that presentation in a parking lot. It's in Salt Lake City at a hotel that since burned down the city Creek in and they were like, can you be in Washington and a month or whatever it was there like Why? And he said if you've been selected as adventure of the Year by natgeo, and we went there and Andy skorpa had gotten it the year before. So he was on stage presenting and talking about it, you know, his year of adventure the year and then looked at us and just said, this will change your life. And I had no idea what he meant that but it did. Marc Gutman 0:45 podcasting from Boulder, Colorado, this is the baby got backstory podcast, we dive into the story behind the story of today's most inspiring storytellers, creators and entrepreneurs. I like to think back stories and I cannot lie. I am your host, Marc Gutman. What if you could help scientists cure cancer, or develop medicines that save lives? Or find answers to some of our biggest crises that face us today? All while doing what you love doing anyway. I'm Marc Gutman, and on today's episode of Baby got backstory, we are talking about adventure in science, and how one adventure brings the two to work together to collect data at scale. And before we get into this episode, I want you to live at scale to adventure and truly feel alive. And that all starts by heading over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and giving us a five star review and rating. By this point in our lives. We all know that algorithms rule the world. And as such apple and Spotify use these ratings as part of the algorithm that determines ratings on their charts. But look, we're humans, not robots. So go show that algo that the humans are in control, and rate this podcast. Thank you for your reviews. I do appreciate it. Today's guest is Greg rhenish, founder and CEO of adventure scientists. And as you'll hear, Greg founded adventure scientists in 2011, with a strong passion for both scientific discovery and exploration of helping scientists solve the world's problems wasn't enough. National Geographic named Greg and adventure of the Year in 2008 when he and a friend completed a 7800 mile trek along the spine of the Andes mountain range. He was included on the Christian Science monitors 30 under 30 list in 2012, and the following year became a national geographic emerging Explorer for his work with adventure scientists. In 2013. He was named a backpacker magazine hero in 2015 at Draper Richards, Kaplan entrepreneur, and one of men journals 50 most adventurous men. In 2017, he was named in a shoka fellow, and in 2018, one of the grist 50 fixers. Greg was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2020. And as a member of their global futures Council on sustainable tourism. Oh, yeah. And he hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2004. And this is his story. I am here with Greg trennis, the founder and CEO of adventure scientist, Greg, welcome to the show. Hey, thanks so much for having me. Yeah. So Greg, let's just get right into it. Like what is adventure sciences? sounds really cool. But like, what is it? Yeah, we're Gregg Treinish 3:57 a nonprofit organization. We're based in Bozeman, Montana. And the idea here is that we want to be the world's greatest field data collectors at scale. So we look for opportunities where we can amplify and accelerate scientists impact and getting them to solutions for the environment. So examples of that are everything from we're creating genetic and chemical reference libraries for trees, so that they can be used by law enforcement to compare seizures or shipments that they think were illegally sourced with the standing trees across a range of species. So you can use genetics to actually compare wood with trees, and it's being used for all kinds of things. And we collected the largest data set on earth for microplastics. We've collected plant life up at 20,000 feet on Mount Everest, which 22,000 feet which was the highest known plant life on Earth, that is being used to inoculate crops and improve crop yields around the world. So we look for these projects where there's a solution tied to it, where data can unlock some solution. And we deploy volunteers from the onshore community to go and get those data. Marc Gutman 5:15 Yeah, and this is the part that I think is really interesting. And I want to make really clear to our listeners is that there are there are these projects where scientists and please correct me if I get this wrong, because I want to, I want to make sure that I put it in, in simple terms, but there's these projects where scientists are like, hey, it would be really cool to grab this plant life from Everest, but there's no way that I can get up there, or I'm not going there. Or it's restrictive, restrictive. And then there's all these adventurers who are like, I'm going to Everest, or I'm going into the Amazon, or I'm going down to Antarctica. And what you're really doing is matching these two parties so that adventurers can help out in this collection of scientific data, wherever they're going. I mean, do I have that right? Is that the what this this is all about? Gregg Treinish 6:00 Yeah, it is, it's a lot more detailed and nuanced than that we've spent a ton of time building these projects and designing them. That's something that is so essential for success of the volunteers as they're out there. But yeah, at the end of the day, there's this army of people who love the outdoors are traveling around the world and have the skill set that can be really useful. And we find them we give them the mission, we train them, and then we deploy them. Marc Gutman 6:29 That is an adventure myself, I mean, I can't think of anything greater than having a purpose behind, you know, beyond just the achievement of whatever we do. And we like to get out and, and, and hit our goals, to have a purpose and to be helping other other scientists and potentially furthering humankind. Gregg Treinish 6:47 That's exactly right. And it's the same for me when I was that on my expeditions. And the reason I started this organization is because of that. It will I had a selfish feeling. I felt really, when I was out hiking the Appalachian Trail, which I did in 2000, for a walk the length of the Andes in 2006, through eight. And on those expeditions, I was just like, Man, I'm spending so much time and couldn't be doing something much more meaningful with this time. How can I get back to these places and really longed for a way that I can make a difference while I get after it? And and that's what adventure scientist is. Marc Gutman 7:24 Yeah, so let's talk about a little bit let's go way back to the younger egg. And have you always as a kid, have you always had a penchant for adventuring? and science or did one come before the other? Gregg Treinish 7:36 I was always fascinated by wildlife and nature, like you know, like most kids are think catching fireflies and Willy bugs and that kind of thing. My family didn't go camping. We didn't like we weren't an outdoors family at all. And it wasn't until I went on a backpacking trip when I was 16 to British Columbia to the Provincial Park, Garibaldi Provincial Park there. And that was where I really fell in love with outdoors and adventure. And it was the first trip and then you know, I did some more backpacking trips and a few things but it wasn't until the Appalachian Trail that I really had a big adventure like that. Marc Gutman 8:20 Yeah. And so you said you didn't grow up camping? What was life like for you? Where did you grow up? Gregg Treinish 8:25 I grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, East Cleveland and a lot of mountains. No, no, we hills we I grew up skiing on a garbage dump on a covered over garments down. Marc Gutman 8:34 I did too. I grew up in Detroit. So Maui pine knob, you know, inverted trash heaps. That's how I learned to ski as well. Gregg Treinish 8:42 That's right. Ours are called Boston Mills. The coolest adventure from my kid days was those probably 10 years old and skiing at a place called Boston mills and Glen plake, at the time was on his like World Tour or North American tour trying to hit every ski resort across the US and there's this run called tiger and I skied it with Glen plake, when I was like 10, which was the coolest thing ever. And then, years later, after I had become a natgeo adventure of the year, and I met Glenn again at the Outdoor Retailer show in Salt Lake where it was back then. And he remembered me he remembered skiing with me at Boston Mills is like coolest thing ever. For me. Marc Gutman 9:27 That is the coolest thing ever. I love that. And so, you know at 10 years old, you know, skiena, Boston mills and hanging out in Cleveland, did you think that you were gonna make a life and a career out of adventure? If you wouldn't have told Gregg Treinish 9:40 me that I was gonna do that. I had to believe i'd figure out some way to do that. But I would have been surprised that I would have chosen a life of adventure and, and nature and you know, I, I think I was I love Jacques Cousteau and and Jane Goodall. I actually have named my daughter after age. Didn't get all of my son after john Muir. Their middle names anyway. But back then, like, I think I saw him on TV and I, you know, loved that they were doing good by those animals. I used to have a little statues of whales and wolves. But it wasn't like, it wasn't my. I didn't know I was gonna go into wildlife biology or conservation or adventure. It was cool to me, but it wasn't like Michael Jordan was cooler to me than Glen plake at that time. Marc Gutman 10:31 Oh, absolutely. Those were the days. And Jordan was was was a figure against the calves. And so what did you think you were gonna do? Like, what was the plan? Like you're, you know, you're in Cleveland, and you're, you're starting to get older. What do you what do you what was your plan? Yeah, we're Gregg Treinish 10:47 going way back here. I don't know. Let me think like, after I got out of the firefighter astronauts age, I probably didn't want to be an astronaut at some point for sure. I didn't used to, I realized I just said that. It wasn't like my obsession, or anything I did used to think wildlife or marine biologists were incredibly cool. And I did have a period of time when I said I'd be a marine biologist, for sure. I don't know, a lawyer, like my dad's a lawyer. Maybe I was gonna be aware. I don't know. I don't know. I think I always knew I would run my own business that I would probably start something or run something. I never really took direction. Well, which is what that's probably about. I definitely had a period of marine biologist, I think that was pretty consistent. I can't remember what those ages were. Or why even other than maybe TV shows about the ocean and thinking that was super cool. I had a big cousin who was a surfer, and maybe that was part of it. I have a big cousin who's a surfer? Maybe that was part of it. I don't know. Marc Gutman 11:58 Yeah, you know, my father's a lawyer, too, out of the Midwest. And all I got out of that was Don't be a lawyer. That's what he was told me. He was like, Don't do this. And he loved it. He was just like, there's too many lawyers and go do something. Go do something different with yourself. But so when you when you left Cleveland, when you when you when you left high school, would you go do? Yeah, Gregg Treinish 12:16 I actually got I went to Boulder. And was a junior because I had gotten kicked out of high school and started going to junior college in Cleveland when I was 16. And so I got a two year headstart and went out to Boulder as a junior and had just two and a half years there, moved up to Breckenridge from there and started being a ski instructor raft guide, live in the ski bum lifestyle for a while. And then when I went and hiked the Appalachian Trail, there wasn't this moment that I've talked about frequently, but it was halfway through. And I was pretty low. I'm just asking myself like, what the hell am I doing out here and worn down and it had rained for God knows how many street days. And I just had this one moment where I picked up a rock constructed at a tree and just started sobbing and fell down in frustration and kind of vowed a life of service in that moment. That was where I really decided that I was really fortunate growing up, you know, we weren't, we certainly weren't living in bel air or anything, but we were fine. And my dad did well, and my mom was a teacher and did well. And I just think that living a life of purpose really matters. And it was kind of that moment that helped me see that it had been building up to that, obviously. So I went and worked in wilderness therapy and worked with kids who had struggled and I was I struggled as a teenager, for sure, and was labeled an at risk youth and all kinds of things. And so I thought that would be my passion. But the more I was in the outdoors, exploring the more I I realized how much I wanted to understand what I was seeing and understand the ecology around me. But that my passion is really for representing all those creatures that don't have a voice and representing nature and wildlife and the environment. Because I think it's one of the greatest atrocities what our species is ever has done to every other species on the planet. I think every other species who were here in many cases before us have been completely disrupted by humans. And I'd really love us to find ways to live in more balance with the rest of the species on this planet. Yeah. And in getting Marc Gutman 14:36 back to that moment of frustration on the 80 what do you think triggered that? What what brought that all about? Like, where would your life been going? Gregg Treinish 14:45 Yeah, I mean, I did have the opportunity to go and spend some time in South Africa when I was a kid and I traveled a little bit and just saw poverty and saw how other people live and realize that my life is not like everybody else's in the world. And I even saw that in the Appalachians, right. Like in the southern Appalachians, man, like, they're that lifestyle is different than suburbia in Cleveland. And so I just was exposed to that. And it really struck me like, Man, I'm so lucky. The fact that I can go hiking for six months, I feel really lucky, you know, I worked my butt off to receive up enough money to be able to pay for it and, and have always had a really strong work ethic. And yet I was given such a head start at life, when I think I realized that then and, and I just felt like, as I said, selfish for being out there and not doing anything beneficial. I was maybe inspiring a few people to get off the couch. But that wasn't what I meant by living a life of purpose. And I think it was a combination of exhaustion and being out physically exhausting myself every day mentally exhausting myself. And when you hike like that, when you're on an expedition, and this is still true for me today is is 99% of what you're doing is just this mental gymnastics, you're constantly looking at relationships and interactions you've had, and it's reflective by nature, because you're you're just you're brought down to the core, right? Like, you're depleted and your and your emotional. And so it was a lot of that. And it was it was thinking about that privilege, combined with the exhaustion, I was feeling that I had a pretty low point at that moment. And decided that that what mattered to me most at that point in my life was that my life mattered, and that my life was gonna be about others. And not just myself. Marc Gutman 16:56 Yeah, and so you had some time in wilderness therapy, and I'm familiar with how that works, and what that's all about. And, you know, for people that don't know, that's where a lot of times at risk are other other kids that are working through things go. And it's in a therapy environment. So there are therapists, and it's in using kind of the, the everything, Greg just talking about getting outside really, really revealing yourself, and figuring some things out. So it's great, great programs, and you're doing that. But there comes a point where you and a friend go on a massive trek across the Andes. How does that come about? And what's what's the purpose behind that? Yeah. Gregg Treinish 17:37 So on the Appalachian Trail I just absolutely fell in love with with going at a human pace. You know, when you're on a bike, you got to get off that bike to go and talk to somebody, same thing on a horse, same same thing with really any other mode of travel. But when you're on foot, you just, you're there in the moment, right, like you're moving at the way our brains evolved to move. So something about that really captured me. And then this idea of Expedition travel like long distances, you know, the Appalachian trails Georgia domain, which is quite a large distance and the topography changes so much that the ecosystems changed so much. So, I just fell in love with that. After about two and a half years working wilderness therapy, I really wanted more of that I really wanted some more personal adventure and more introspection and, and I wanted to do it in a place where I was going to be exposed to new languages to new 20,000 feet. It wasn't and we looked all around the world, right? Like I looked at, there's a long trail in New Zealand, there's this trail of the Great Divide trail, which I'd still love to do someday up in Canada, but Marc Gutman 18:55 none of them were Gregg Treinish 18:57 as enticing as the Andes because the Andes was, again 20,000 feet, the Amazon ketua Myra, the Incan history that was there. expanish. Obviously, throughout it, the Atacama Desert really intrigued me. And it was just this. There was so much I just finished reading into thin air, which takes place in the quarter whitewash. And obviously didn't want to have that kind of experience there. But it was just this this one thing after another and then at some point, I'm sure there was just a confirmation bias taking over where that was where we had to go. And so I've researched it and we researched it and and I reached out to about 10 friends and in the end, there was just the one friend Dale who was last who is like, yeah, I'll go and it was excited to go. And yeah, we thought there would be hundreds of people doing it. We thought there would be so many and it turns Marc Gutman 19:56 out we were the first to ever do it. And how long did that Taking is that how then you were recognized as adventure of the year because you were the first to to make that Trek. Gregg Treinish 20:07 Yeah, it was 667 days or 22 months that it took us to do it straight, straight, with the exception of three weeks when I came home with typhoid fever to recover from typhoid fever. So I flew home. And then we went right back after about three weeks. And, and I had other diseases along the way that I probably should have come home for, but I did. So yeah. And then the recognition from natgeo was for that track. I don't know if it was as much because we were the first or just because how we did it, we kind of went down with no plan. And the plan was just to go to the equator and head south. And and we did, we thought we would probably have to skip the Atacama Desert, we figured out a way to do that. We again didn't know we would be the first to do it, we just kind of along the way realize that nobody else had done it. There was no information about it. There was three other guys who had done heights, the length of South America, Kyle Busch, B. We actually did it through all the Americas and then got arrested in Russia, once he crossed the Bering Strait. But he had done it on on frontcountry. Really with cart, George meegan in the 70s had done it with a card and then Ian Reeves had just finished it hiking mostly on roads and knowing known pathways. So we were the first to really do it off trail off. We were on trails as much as possible. There's aren't that many trails. And we were trying to stay as close to the spine of the Andes as we could without Marc Gutman 21:46 relying on roads. And so what what happens when your adventure of the year like what don't mean now Gregg Treinish 21:54 you get a call. So that happened because I gave a presentation in a parking lot at that Outdoor Retailer. So that I mentioned earlier for granite gear, who was a sponsor, a sponsor, they gave us some free packs. To me, that was a sponsor that I wrote like 300 letters to companies and three wrote back and I was like kotula steri pen and granite gear. So we got a call. Three weeks after we gave that presentation in a parking lot. It's in Salt Lake City at a hotel that since burned down the city Creek in and they were like, can you be in Washington in a month or whatever it was. And we're like, why? And he said, You've been selected as adventure of the Year by natgeo. And we went there and Andy skorpa had gotten it the year before. So he was on stage presenting and talking about, you know, his year of adventure the year and then looked at us and just said this will change your life. And I had no idea what he meant then, but it did. It was amazing. Marc Gutman 23:00 In what ways I mean, I'm sure you can't say all of them, but like, how did it change your life? Like, like what happened? Yeah, Gregg Treinish 23:07 right. Like I can't say all cuz I don't know, like, I don't know what my life would have been the other way right without that. But what it did is give me access to World Class explorers, it gave me a credential to be able to really have some momentum behind what I wanted to do and and my path from there. I hadn't known that I was gonna start this when I got adventure year by any means. But it gave me the, I guess the credibility to be able to start adventure scientists. And yeah, it was from deepening the relationship in that geo and being able to lead expeditions around the world to having some public awareness about what we had done, being featured in magazines and stuff like that really gave us the the, again, the opportunity to then go out and get additional sponsorship to do biological expeditions, which we started doing after that. And it just, it was just the opportunity. It was a stepping stone for sure. Marc Gutman 24:16 A common question I get all the time is Mark, can you help me with our brand? Yes, we help companies solve branding problems. And the first step would be to schedule a no obligation brand clarity call, we'll link to that in the show notes or head over to wild story comm and send us an email, we'll get you booked right away. So whether you're just getting started with a new business, or whether you've done some work and need a refresh, or whether you're a brand that's high performing and wants to stay there, we can help. After you book your brand clarity call, you'll learn about our brand audit and strategy process will identify if you need it. A new logo or just a refresh, will determine if your business has a branding problem. And you'll see examples of our work and get relevant case studies. We'll also see if branding is holding your business back, and can help you get to the next level. So what are you waiting for? Build the brand you've always dreamed of. Again, we'll link to that in the show notes, or head over to wildstorm comm and send us an email. Now back to the show. Yeah, and that's, that's a great segue. So like, what was the impetus or the inspiration or the lightbulb moment for adventure scientists, because your things are going good, right? Like why? Why why start this business? Yeah, so Gregg Treinish 25:46 I totally kill it, I think just continued doing mega expeditions and, and live that life and now would have been incredibly fun. But as I said, like, purpose was what really mattered to me and the enemies. You know, ostensibly, we're, we are trying to learn about sustainability and and we're really passionate about human sustainability. Even then, you know, we learned a lot we saw people who had been living with traditional methods of light of agriculture and and solar cookers and all kinds of things, we learned a ton there, how to treat water with just the pop bottle, throw it up on your roof, and UV light works like pretty cool. So there was some purpose there. And we had hoped to share some of the lessons we learned. I think we were in our early 20s. And, and still, like a new adventure, and a little naive as to how real change happens in the world. But anyway, on that trip, I was asking myself like what's next, and really fell even deeper into the ecology space and thought I would work with lions and learn how to save lion some way and wrote a professor Scott Creel, who's here and asked if I could come study, how to save lions with him, and came up here and started working on my second degree, which was in wildlife ecology. And started before I ever made it to Africa with Scott, I started tracking links, and Wolverines, and grizzly bears here. So I'd go out on my boss's truck and take his snowmobiles out and would park as far as we could go. And then I'd hop on my skis, and go for two or three days following Wolverine tracks and documenting their behavior and collecting DNA samples. And it was awesome. What a fun trip, or projects really. And then we were I started working on owls in California, and I worked with other species, and just really felt like I was making a difference. And using my outdoor skill set to do it. In my outdoor skill set, let's be clear, I'm not a world class climber. I'm not a I'm not really good at any sports, I just have persistence and creativity and optimism was, is so translatable to the business world and what I do now. But anyway, yeah, I was doing those things and feeling good about it. But it just occurred to me that if we could rally, others who love the outdoors and get them to do it, the impact would be so much bigger. I had also been taking biological expedition. So I've worked with some scientists. In the course of my degree, they actually used it for part of my degree and developed a protocol to put my brain in the in the headspace of a grizzly bear Wolverine and make decisions like they would make as they moved across large landscapes. And so I walked from the eastern end of Yellowstone to the western end of Idaho, which is about 600 miles and a month, and tested these least cost path analyses or predictions on how wildlife will move across the ecosystem and documented how many fences they have to cross and got a lot of information that way. And then went on to do expeditions in Mongolia tracking Wolverines. And, and I just saw that that there was this real opportunity to mobilize people who wish there was a way they could give back, we thought it would be cool to do that, at least, maybe they didn't have the same selfish feeling I did, but they thought it would be meaningful and cool to do that. And then I was doing these things as a scientist that I didn't know much about, like, take seven years of training to learn how to track hours and it didn't take seven years of training to learn how to identify Wolverine tracks. So I just knew that that possibility was there and I googled how do you start a nonprofit and reached out to Conrad Anker, who's one of the world's greatest mountaineers here in Bozeman and he said he joined my board and then it was just one thing after another with Conrad, I was able to get Celine Cousteau and john Bower master and and Ross savage who's the first person to row across all three oceans and first woman to row across the Pacific and Atlantic. And I just got these heroes of mine together and and started doing started figuring out how do you run a nonprofit? Marc Gutman 30:15 It's incredible. And, and I want to pick that up there. But as you're talking, it also really dawned on me. And you may have a different definition than most people have two words. And so I'd like you to think about, like, how do you define adventure or an adventure? And then how do you define science or scientist? Because you were just talking like, to me, a scientist is someone with a bazillion years of training and they wear a lab coat and they you know, and they do all this stuff. But clearly, you found sort of a different definition. Yeah, Gregg Treinish 30:53 so adventure. First of all, like, I think it's more traditional than than not, I don't know, Explorer is a different term and is pushing any boundary in my mind. But adventure is is pursuing passion in the outdoors. It's it's like, it's certainly outdoor sport bass, but that can be hiking for some people and just like, adventuring into a place you haven't been before to look at birds, or it can be climbing peaks and, and skiing down or whatever. Yeah, it's pursuing your own boundaries in the outdoors is my definition of adventure adventure. People who volunteer for us are everything from day hikers to World Class climbers. So it's a huge spectrum. Scientists are scientific, you know, I do think it takes training, I do think it takes method and following a scientific process. But man, there are field technicians, which is what I was a field technician that are doing real science and really important science and our volunteers are doing science and really important science. So would they call themselves scientists? No. What a lot of people allow me to call myself a scientist, absolutely not. No way. Any PhDs who are listening to this, like, I get it, you guys are scientists. I am a wannabe for sure. But it's like I hang around a lot of scientists and I've learned a lot about science and how science works. And, and it's exploration, right, it's under, it's pushing boundaries. It's looking at things with a new lens, it's looking at things with innovation and technology and entrepreneurial spirit behind it. You know, at the end of the day, I'm not really an adventure. Most I'm an adventure, but I'm not a scientist, I am an entrepreneur, I'm a community organizer. I bring people together with a common purpose and a common goal. And make sure they have the skills that they need to be successful. In order to go out and pick up animals, cats so that a Harvard Medical School can read research, I can look at them for antibiotic resistance, you don't have to be a PhD, you have to know how to identify scat. Like say this is poop, you don't even have to know whose poop it is. And you have to be trained how to properly pick it up. So you don't can't contaminate the sample. That's not rocket science. It's important, it's meaningful. It's contributing to science. But you know, so you're a citizen scientists or community scientists you're not a you're not a PhD Nobel Prize winning scientists for doing that though. Marc Gutman 33:38 No and and I wouldn't make that assertion right but the the idea that we can be additive that we can use our day hiking our adventures these things that you know, I have the same feeling I feel self for sometimes when I'm up in a helicopter going through a mountain or you know, doing whatever, it's, it's really an amazing opportunity. And, you know, a moment of confession, my 11 year old daughter and I last night we were doing a word game around poop yet it's a different word for poop. And scat was one that you know, I had that helped to stump her but to think that you know, us having this like, you know, how many words can we come up with poop? that we could go out and be additive to a harvard medical researchers project is really empowering and really amazing. So when you started this business, you googled it you got Connor at anchor, you got some other famous people to help me your board and give you some visibility. I mean, was it an immediate success? Did it take off or what happened? Gregg Treinish 34:36 Yeah, it was pretty cool. Like so that was in January or February maybe it was late January, and then by May, we have collected the highest known plant life on Earth, up to 22,000 feet and we started that got a bunch of press. And then it was like one thing after another there was people rolling across the Arctic Ocean and we met up we connected them with a researcher looking at whale olfaction and playing plankton and trying to understand how whales track points and and then we, we had projects that would just build back then it was actually the adventurers who were saying, like, I'm going here, I'm doing this, I'm going there, what do you have for me to do? And then I would find a researcher and put them together, we realized after some time that the impact, there's tough, you've got these one off expeditions, in many cases, yeah, you get some great samples for scientists. But what we do now is everything is driven by the scientists. So the scientists come to us and they say, I need samples from here, I need this many samples over this period of time. And the real value proposition is scale, they can't get the temporal or spatial scale that we can get, and certainly access to these places, too. But there's a lot of scientists, scientists go into this because they love the or these field scientists do. Science is a huge, huge category, obviously, everything from solving the pandemic to field biologist studying tree kangaroos and Papa New Guinea. But so a lot of them do have outdoor skills. But the reality is, is you can go to one peak, and you raise a ton of money and to be to be able to do that you get a grant to be able to do that. And it's $40,000 expedition and go climb one of these Himalayan peaks. And what we do is, it's like, oh, you need data from every 8000 meter peak on the planet, or in the Himalaya, you need data from everything above 6000 meters on the planet, it's just not possible any other way. And so when we flipped it and started being scientist driven, the impact really became clear and what this organization can be really started to crystallize. Marc Gutman 36:46 Yeah, and what is your sort of day to day in life? Like is the CEO and founder Are you just off on expeditions hanging out? Like just you know, hanging off a mountain being cool? Or like, what's what's your day to day? Like? Gregg Treinish 36:59 Yeah, no, I am doing that I, I try to do at least one awesome adventure every year. And and I have two small kids. So admittedly have have slacked at that a bit. I've had to do Alaska on attended packraft this year, in the Brooks Range. But those are the exception. Those are the most fun parts of my job, for sure. I raise money, I manage a team, I set vision and strategy. I work on developing new projects and finding leads working with our networks, through the World Economic Forum, or TED or National Geographic, to come up with new projects, and what's going to be the most impactful work with our donors on understanding the opportunities that their connections could provide on partnering with them to build these projects and actually get them off the ground. I spend a lot of time managing the team and dealing with the, the ups and downs of that. And yeah, and and thinking strategically about what's next what the chess pieces are, and what the moves are, that are going to help grow this organization and help it reach its potential. Marc Gutman 38:18 Yeah. And so is there anything that you didn't share? that reveals like, what's hard about this, like, what's hard about running a nonprofit that not only just a nonprofit, but that one that deals with kind of this idea of adventure in science and putting it all together? Like, what, what's hard about this thing? Gregg Treinish 38:36 Yeah, there's the kind of the basic layers of everything that any business owner or entrepreneur deals with, right? It's like, you got to sell your idea, you got to market your idea, you got to have proof of concept. You have to, you know, have good market strategy and all this. So it's those basic things for sure. I think nonprofit is not always taken as seriously in the business community. I think there's challenges with that. Yet, we have a fee for service revenue stream, too. So I've had to build out the business model on the business as well. We also have philanthropic support, which has been essential to our success. With a with a for profit, you take on investment, and you know, and that really to get it off the ground. You can't do that with a nonprofit, you can't sell equity in the company. And so you have to be profitable from day one. That that's a huge challenge. You have to be in the black every year, unless you've got a reserve fund, which we now do, but you've got to build that up and it's taken a decade to be able to even think about spending more than we make in a year. So that's a huge challenge. I think that the the competition with for profit for getting talented individuals is real. You know, by being able to take on that debt and can offer bigger salaries right away, it's hard to compete with those salaries, though, I'm really proud of what we can offer our staff now. But it's taken a long time to get there, I spent the first nine months doing this selling bumper stickers. So I would like I brought those three letter like BGN, bumper stickers to Bozeman, and nobody was selling me here. So I print off a bunch. And then I'd walk around to the people who sell bumper stickers and then say, Hey, you know, I didn't tell him this, but it was, Hey, I just bought these for 30 cents, you want them for $1. And they would sell them for $4. And it was like, that's how I had enough money to eat. So it took starting the second business to be able to do that. And I didn't pay myself until probably September of that first year. And that was eight bucks an hour. So it was it was a long slog to do that. And then I think by March, I was able to hire my first employee. So it's it's been slow incremental growth. And, you know, it's no different than adventure and expeditions to like, the cool thing about expeditions for me is not like this, like, ooh, adrenaline seeking. That's not my type of Expedition. It's its persistence, its creativity, its problem solving. It's you're in this shitty situation, how you can get yourself out. And it's avoiding those situations to begin with. I think that is exactly what running a business is. It's looking ahead and coming up with where you're headed and your route or your strategy, and it's avoiding pitfalls and trying to see around corners, and then inevitably, you're in shitty situations that you didn't foresee. And it's using creativity, optimism and persistence, navigate around those things. And keeping a clear head while you're doing it and making sure that you're looking at all options, getting advice where you can, can't always do that on expeditions, but you can sometimes, and and looking at people who have been there before you so that you're not reinventing the wheel all the time. So it translates really well. Absolutely. And you must be doing something right, because I'm doing the math correctly. Marc Gutman 42:14 Your business is coming up on 10 years, or did you just celebrate 10 years of Yeah, January Gregg Treinish 42:20 this year was our 10th anniversary, and we're using the whole year to celebrate our 10th Marc Gutman 42:25 year anniversary. Congratulations. That's an amazing accomplishment. Most businesses don't make it to like year two. So to make it 10 years is huge. So 10 years for adventure scientists, what you mentioned a big part of your, your job is thinking about the future, thinking about the future vision. What What's next? What's the future for adventure scientists? What's that look like? Yeah, we Gregg Treinish 42:47 want to be the greatest data collectors at scale on the planet. And we've got some work to make that true. We want to gain experience internationally and are exploring projects in many different fields, but in timber and, and in wildlife connectivity and in agriculture, and really helping to improve crop yields using natural nature based solutions is the field. And we're looking at how to really do that, with this organization. And what we've built here has incredible potential to accelerate impact accelerate the ability for our species to operate with less impacts with less negative impact on the planet. And I there's this line in a Bronx tale, which is great movie from God knows when in the 90s I think and Robert De Niro's in it, and he's talking to his son, and it's, there's nothing worse than wasted potential. And that's what this organization is, isn't certainly not wasted potential, but so much potential, and is just look forward to the future of us becoming a real resource for problem solvers to get there quickly, more quickly than they otherwise would. And we're not we already there. And it's important to recognize the accomplishments already. And it's important to recognize that we've had a tremendous impact on on a number of different fields, from antibiotic resistance to microplastics, to improving crop yields to helping to restore and preserve species that are extirpated from ecosystems. And it's been amazing what we've been able to accomplish in 10, short years, and I'm so proud of our impacts that we've already had. But I'm always thinking about how we do that on a bigger scale and how we make sure that the data we've collected and the data we will collect are going to have as much impact on as many lives human and otherwise as possible. Marc Gutman 44:47 Yeah. And so with that in mind, if people want to help you collect data at scale, how do they get involved? How do they learn more about adventure scientists? Gregg Treinish 44:56 Yeah, adventure. scientists.org is a great place to go where on all the social media channels on adventure scientists, as well, you know, we need a lot of people, this is a movement, and we need a lot of people working together to make it happen. It's the volunteers. Absolutely. If you like being in the outdoors, we don't always have project everywhere on Earth, we are working towards that, and hope for that to be true at some point. But we have great opportunities to use your outdoor skills to further a number of different fields. And we need money to do what we do. We need that through philanthropy and and also through projects. If you're scientists who could benefit from data collection at scale, you got to reach out to us talk to us, we also really need a lot of business acumen that like I said, we're building the fee for service revenue stream at the same time that we're learning how to market our overall mission and overall organization better, as well as marketing these projects better. So we need support like that as well. advice, and, and connections. So we welcome everybody to come and reach out through the website. And I'm Greg and adventure scientists.org. So people can email me as well. Marc Gutman 46:17 Fantastic. And we'll make sure to link to all those resources in the show notes. So it makes it really easy for people to click and be able to, to contact you and either volunteer, donate or help in other ways. So Greg, as we come to the end of our time here, I'd love you and I, we kind of touched on this, but I'd love you to think back to that that young version of yourself whose skin at eight years old and living in Cleveland, and, you know, what do you think he would say, if he saw you today? See, cool, do more. Gregg Treinish 46:51 I don't know. He'd say, that's pretty cool, man. I think he would be proud of me. You know, more importantly, I think I've got an amazing wife and two amazing kids and the organization is is great. But I think that those other things matter as much to me and, and my family, my parents are still with me. And I'm amazing. And my brothers, my little brothers just had a baby two days ago. And I'm really close with both my brothers. And I think those are the things that matters much to me as anything I've built at work, and it's just one part of a much broader picture for me. So I think he would be proud that all those things are true for me today too. Marc Gutman 47:37 And that is Greg reinisch, founder and CEO of adventure scientists. I love this idea that we as those that love the outdoors can help contribute to science by doing what we love. I want to stress that you can be an Everest mountaineer, or a day hiker or anything in between. Adventure scientist probably has a project for you. Congratulations to Greg and the entire team that adventure scientists is they celebrate their 10th anniversary this year. Here's the 10 more 10 more years of creating impact. This is truly the entrepreneurial spirit, rewriting the script and impacting our world. The big thank you to Greg trench and the team it adventure scientists. We will link to all things Greg and adventure scientists in the show notes. If you know of a guest who should appear on our show, please drop me a line that podcast@wildstorm.com our best guests like Greg come from referrals from past guests and our listeners. Well that's the show. 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Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Annette McGivney , author of " Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives, Three Cultures, and the Search for Heaven on Earth ." McGivney is Southwest Editor for Backpacker Magazine and former professor of journalism at Northern Arizona University. McGivney’s book tells the story of Tomomi Hanamure, a Japanese citizen who loved exploring the wilderness of the American Southwest. She was murdered on her birthday—May 8, 2006. She was stabbed 29 times as she hiked to Havasu Falls on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Her killer was a distressed 18-year-old Havasupai youth.

My Guest on this Episode is Steve Yocom.  He is an Outdoor Travel and Product photographer based out of North Carolina.  We met up in-person in the Mt Hood wilderness to record this episode in the middle of a crazy road trip he's on with his girlfriend Jordan and their dogs as ambassadors for Backpacker magazine. Because of that, it might sound a little more raw and outdoorsy, but I think you're gonna love this backwoods episode of the podcast.https://www.instagram.com/steve_yocom/http://steveyocomphotography.com/https://www.backpacker.com/news-and-events/2020-get-out-more-tour 

An Ironman with no training? For those of us new to the sport, or even for seasoned triathletes, we’re always looking for an interesting take on the triathlon experience including the training, the culture of the sport, or anything that inspires us to do better and laugh along the way! In this Episode In this episode of Hilary Topper On Air, Hilary interviews Will McGough, travel writer at Wake and Wander Media and author of the new book, Swim, Bike, Bonk: Confessions of a Reluctant Triathlete. Will McGough decided to sign up for an Ironman, without training or ever seeing an Ironman event. Hear from Will as he discusses the concept for his book, the training he endured, his ultimate race experience and his takeaways from it. Listen as Will explains how he immersed himself in a sport he had no business trying. Will shares anecdotes of his participation in, around, and over the course of one of the world's premier triathlons, the annual 140.6-mile Ironman in Tempe, Arizona. He will explore the cult and habits of the triathlete community and his firsthand attempt to conquer the ultimate endurance sport. About Will McGough Will has been a full-time travel writer since 2010, a nomad-at-large and travel columnist, penning profiles, features, and dispatches from afar. His “wake and wander” travel philosophy embraces a curiosity about the way people live their lives in different parts of the world. Will enjoys the idea of waking up every day to new opportunities, new landscapes, and the new feelings that the former inevitably evoke. He enjoys being outside. Will has written stories for major travel publications around the globe, including Forbes, Conde Nast, Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, the Travel Channel, AFAR, Backpacker Magazine, REI, Popular Mechanics, Alaska Airlines, Travel Pulse, the Brewer’s Association, and many others. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech and published his first book, Swim, Bike, Bonk, in November with Lyons Press. To learn more about Will you can find him at https://wakeandwander.com/ or to purchase his new book, Swim, Bike, Bonk, visit Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, and more!

Autumn Cullen came on the Wealth Preservation Podcast and laid down the hammer: nobody has excuses! That’s right! When the mother of 4 high energy boys found out she was having a special needs “tubie” baby (term used for community of tube fed individuals), she made it her mission to raise her daughter in the highest of standards without compromising the upbringing of her boys. That is were she ran into issues. Commercial formula did not provide her daughter with the dietary stability that her and her boys enjoyed. It also made it impossible to take the boys on hiking and backpacking trips as her daughter (and her heavy formula) had to be packed in and packed out. So, what did Autumn do? Create an enteral formula alternative to the big commercial formula available which gave her daughter a more well-balanced diet AND afforded her an active life with a tubie! She then saw the bigger calling! So many lives could be improved if she just added “mompreneur” onto her resume. We explore the journey of creating a nutrient dense enteral formula, the struggles of creating something new, her experience as a single mother entrepreneur, and how she got the attention of Hike It Baby, Backpacker Magazine, and Merrell!

As you listen to or read this essay, you will be celebrating the beginning of a brand-new month. But it is being written and recorded on another milestone -- the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. I was present for the very first one, as a student at the University of Illinois. Seminars, programs, speeches and leaflets urged the protection of our environment and an appreciation of the outdoors. For me, that appreciation would continue for a lifetime. This was the era of the "back to the land" movement and Mother Earth News. REI and Backpacker Magazine. Community cleanups and widespread tree planting. I would be fortunate enough to acquire a small hobby farm in Northern Wisconsin, if only for a few years. I often think about that property and can imagine in my mind how the land has changed, and how it hasn't. I will celebrate today not only by getting outdoors, but also by revisiting some of my favorite outdoor writers: Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Sigurd Olson. Their thoughts are

It started with a question in the #AmWriting Facebook group: How do you get it all done?And the answer was, of course—we don’t, no one does, we push things off until tomorrow or we put out fires all day and then frantically write until late in the evening or we drive our children around for hours while chastising ourselves for not making better choices. But really, you all said. Really truly when do you write? And how d you put it first? And what do you do when you don’t or can’t? This is us, three full time writers and also parents (all of teenagers), talking about the push and pull of looking like you’re at home and available when you’re not, and how the awful truth is that sometimes you are, and how we control what we can and scream hopelessly into the void at what we can’t. (That’s just who we are.) We realized we’re each good at some parts of this and not others, which means we can take a little inspiration. We can protect our time, do the important stuff first and cut ourselves a little slack. And we can always, always recognize that it’s what you do the day after you feel like you really lost momentum that matters most. Episode links and a transcript follow, and that’s pretty much it for this week. Of course, a #WriterTopFive will go out to supporters Monday, and the topic will be a total surprise (heck, it’s a surprise for me too) but we promise it will be practical advice you can use that we probably need too. If you’re a fan of the podcast—if we’re offering, say, two grande mochas worth of advice a month, please consider supporting us for actually less than that. $7 a month, and we promise we’re not coming for your coffee.As always, this episode (and every episode) will appear for all subscribers in your usual podcast listening places, totally free as the #AmWriting Podcast has always been. This shownotes email is free, too, so please—forward it to a friend, and if you haven’t already, join our email list and be on top of it with the shownotes and a transcript every time there’s a new episode. LINKS FROM THE PODCAST#AmReading (Watching, Listening)Jess: The Wilderness Idiot: Lessons from an Accidental Adventurer, Ted AlvarezA Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father, Augusten BurroughsDry: A Memoir, Augusten BurroughsKJ: Toil and Trouble: A Memoir, Augusten BurroughsSarina: Great and Precious Things, Rebecca YarrosWe love our sponsor, Author Accelerator, the book coaching program that helps you get your work DONE, and if we were being coached right now we would probably somehow be managing to pull off better time management, because time is money in more ways than one, and when you invest in your writing career, it’s a lot harder to make excuses. Visit https://www.authoraccelerator.com/amwritingfor details, special offers and Jennie Nash’s Inside-Outline template.Find more about Jess here, Sarina here and about KJ here.Follow KJ on Instagram for her #BooksThatWon’tBumYouOut series: short reviews of books that won’t make you hate yourself and all humanity.If you enjoyed this episode, we suggest you check out Marginally, a podcast about writing, work and friendship.The image in our podcast illustration is by KJ, who totally wants credit.Transcript (We use an AI service for transcription, and while we do clean it up a bit, some errors are the price of admission here. We hope it’s still helpful.)KJ:                                        00:01                    Hey fellow writers, KJ here as we launch into an episode that’s ostensibly about how we get all the things done. Spoiler alert, we don’t, and I’m having a really depressing winter on that front. BUT—I can tell you that one thing that can help you shift into really prioritizing your work is to invest in it, and to make a commitment to another person to work through challenges both on the page and in the calendar. Our sponsor, Author Accelerator, matches writers in both fiction and non-fiction with book coaches who can help you go from stuck to done no matter where you are in the process. Find out more at authoraccelerator.com/amwriting. Is it recording?Jess:                                     00:43                    Now it's recording.KJ:                                        00:44                    Yay.Jess:                                     00:45                    Go ahead.KJ:                                        00:46                    This is the part where I stare blankly at the microphone like I don't remember what I'm supposed to be doing.Jess:                                     00:50                    Alright, let's start over.KJ:                                        00:51                    Awkward pause. I'm going to rustle some papers. Now, one, two, three. Hey, I'm KJ Dell'Antonia and this is #AmWriting. #AmWriting is the podcast about writing all the things - fiction, nonfiction, pitches, proposals, really as I do say every week. This is the podcast about sitting down and getting your work done. And oh boy, today is it ever the podcast about sitting down and getting your work done!Jess:                                     01:28                    I'm Jess Lahey. I'm the author of the Gift of Failure and I write about kids, and I write about substance abuse, and I write about so many fun things at places like the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Washington Post. And I'm currently editing my next book, which will be out in 2021.Sarina:                                 01:46                    And I'm Sarina Bowen, the author of 30-odd romance novels. And I have a deadline on March 10th, guys. So this is a great topic for me today.Jess:                                     01:56                    This is so timely because we all have various deadlines that we're working towards right now.KJ:                                        02:04                    Wait, I haven't introduced myself yet, people won't know who I am. I am KJ Dell'Antonia. I am the author of The Chicken Sisters, a novel coming out this summer and How to Be a Happier Parent, which is out in hardback now and will be out in paperback this summer. So big summer for me. Mostly at the moment you'll find me on Instagram, but I'm also a pretty regular contributor to the New York Times and a few other places.Jess:                                     02:30                    You've been getting some really fun book talks lately, Missy Instagram.KJ:                                        02:34                    I have been. It's my series called #BooksThatWon'tBumYouOut and it's all books that won't bum you out. Because I felt like I needed someone to recommend those books to me. And one of my things for the year is start the things you wish other people would do. So there we go.Jess:                                     02:52                    I love it, I absolutely love it. So we should talk about what our topic is for today and why it's our topic for today. Do you wanna talk about that, Sarina?Sarina:                                 03:00                    Well, what we really do all day is try to figure out where does the time go. And we all have children and other responsibilities besides writing.KJ:                                        03:14                    And someone asked us...Jess:                                     03:16                    Yes, someone asked about this in the Facebook group, too. Someone said, 'It's all nice and good when you talk about the broad strokes, but we want the nitty gritty, like how you're actually getting the work done with all the other things you have to do.'KJ:                                        03:31                    Right. And we had this great exchange in there in which we sort of all went back to, well, you know, when our kids were little, things were different. And I sort of ended that exchange thinking, well, and that's true when the kids were little it was harder. And yet as I look - I've actually been keeping track of my week and I'm realizing, okay, when the kids were little, I had a babysitter. So I had dedicated work time. And at the moment I have made the mistake of not, and my work time is looking super pitiful at the moment. So yeah. Let's dig into what we actually do all day and when we do it.Jess:                                     04:15                    Since you've been such a good Doobie and kept track of your time, why don't you go ahead and start?KJ:                                        04:19                    It's been really depressing, guys.Jess:                                     04:20                    You informed me on a text the other day that I was a 10 minute time-waster.KJ:                                        04:27                    You did, you did. You sucked my time away with a tempting text, that granted I should never have looked at. No, one of you start and I'm just gonna do a little ugly math.Jess:                                     04:42                    See, here's the thing. I feel really bad about this because my reality is different. We all have kids that overlap, but I only have two of them. One of them is in college and he's actually even away this semester. He studying away from his college so he's even further away than usual. And then I have a 16 year old kid who is so sort of self-directed and doesn't want much to do with me, except for this week he's been really sick. So this week has actually been a busier week than usual because I've had a lot of interviews, I've had a lot of obligations, phone calls. I've got a bunch of travel coming up and before I do that, I have these conference calls with the organizers. And so it's been a lot of that this week. And there's been a few things I've had to move around because I've had to pick him up from school when he's like 'I can't stay, I real feel horrible.' So this week has been, you know, dicier than usual. But for the most part, I'm sickeningly flexible because except for like these three dogs that get bummed out when I leave the house or when I move around the house. I have a ton of time to get my stuff done. So I'm not very helpful. But when I look at what I was doing when my kids were little, you know, again, it was really different. I didn't have a babysitter, but I did have friends that I traded with a lot. I had neighbors close by and my kids would run off to their house. But on a nitty gritty day to day basis, I'm just gonna make people mad. I sleep in, I'm not a good morning person. I get up and shuffle into my office, which is 10-12 steps from my bedroom. I sit down and I work until I'm done working. And then my 16 year old kid doesn't even come through the door until four o'clock in the afternoon when the bus gets home. And at that point he doesn't actually want a ton to do with me until dinner time. So there you go. I'm sorry.Sarina:                                 06:43                    You know what though, Jess...Jess:                                     06:45                    I feel bad that I'm not contributing.KJ:                                        06:47                    You should not feel bad.Sarina:                                 06:48                    No. First of all, you're not allowed to feel bad. But secondly, I actually do hate you, but not for the reasons that you think.Jess:                                     07:03                    Let me say one other thing, which is that, I am very, very lucky in that I work fast. And I credit a lot of that with working with KJ for the couple of years that I did the column at the New York Times because I didn't use to work so fast, but I'm much faster now. And so when I actually sit down and get focused, I work really, really fast and I think that's been one of the saving graces. Even when I was teaching full time, I'd get up crazy early, get home from school and then sit down to do the other work, which was not only the grading, but also the article writing. And when that happened I was working really fast. So I will add that caveat in that I'm a pretty fast writer.Sarina:                                 07:46                    Well also, the boundless energy whereby this week you're editing a book and also removing wallpaper from a room and then painting another one. Like I just want to like weep when I hear about this.Jess:                                     07:58                    That's my fun time. I mean, I've said it before, weeding or gardening and I can't do that in the winter here in Vermont. So I've been removing wallpaper and repainting a room that I promised I would repaint when we first moved in a year and a half ago. I'm finally getting to it. And that's how I relax.KJ:                                        08:13                    Is that your point of hatred, Sarina?Sarina:                                 08:16                    Sort of. I think it's the boundless energy, but it also might just be focus, because I have as many work hours as Jess does probably. I mean, today alone, my husband has made me two meals and a latte worthy of Italy.Jess:                                     08:51                    What KJ is trying to say is that sometimes having people in your space is difficult.Sarina:                                 08:55                    Yes, it's true. I also have a kid home from school today, so you know, good times, but it's not the hours that I'm fighting against so much, as getting my hands around the business itself all the time. I need to like silence everything and write a couple of hours a day, which is hard when my email inbox is like one of Dante's circles of hell and I literally every day don't know what to do first.Jess:                                     09:25                    That's something that mystifies me about your work flow - is you're getting so many words written, but you're also managing the business of self publishing your books, which blows my mind wide open. So I'm actually really curious and I know a lot about your schedule. I'm really curious as to how a daily workflow works for you.Sarina:                                 09:45                    Well, when it works, it's because I do those words first. And that's been really hard for me lately because of that inbox, and I know that if I look, there'll be some fires to put out in there or people who want answers and it's really hard for me to ignore that, as like a pleaser. As my personality type wants to get back to people right away. But if I do, it's just done. So I've actually had to make silly little rules for myself. Like when I'm drinking my Italian worthy cup of coffee in the morning, I can't look at my email right then. I just can't, because I'll get sucked in. And I'm like, 'Oh, it'll just take a second to answer her and then I'll start to wonder like, Oh, I wonder what the numbers looked like after that latest promotion.' And then I'll go look at them. And it's really hard because that's working as well. Like that's work and it arguably needs to be done. So I'm wrestling the writing and the business all the time. And what really does not get done is like painting a room or even maybe vacuuming it, because that's just got to go. Like when this topic came up, you know, how do you guys get it all done? I immediately thought of JK Rowling and her quote, 'You know, but you don't understand I live in squalor.'Jess:                                     11:10                    Well and you know, on the other hand, again I like vacuuming and so there are certain things that for me - well the reason I like painting, and the reason I like vacuuming, and the reason I like cleaning is that when I'm doing those things, I'm plugged into an audio book. Or, even better I'll drag my laptop into the room where I'm painting and I'll watch a television show, or a movie, which is like crazy luxury. So for me, that ability to turn my brain off and listen to something else while I'm actually getting something done for me is incredibly satisfying. And if you think about it, I was talking to someone about this this morning, I can point at that wall and say, 'Look, I did that. It is done.' Whereas with my edits, no one knows, it's this big morass of words and no one knows what was there and I can't point at anything. It can be tough cause my husband's a physician and he's out there saving people's lives, and my son's out there learning things, and I'm sitting here at home. So that's my thing is being able to point to something and say, 'Look, I cleaned that today.' at least makes me feel like I got something done. Especially when the edits aren't going well.KJ:                                        12:31                    Well maybe my reason for hating you will make you feel better because my reason for hating you is that you are so extremely good at protecting your time. And some of that has to do with the number of kids, and where we live, and the flexibility and stuff like that. But you don't let people dump 47 dentist appointments, and extra carpool, and I really want to get my hair red on the bottom can you drive me to Fairley and pick me up again three hours later. And also, the guy is coming to fix the heat in the bedroom and I feel like you're much better about, 'Yeah, no, sorry people, you can't do that today because I'm editing. And my whole week has basically gone to that/health stuff that I can't deal with.Jess:                                     13:25                    But partly that has to do with the kind of kid I have, too. I mean, I have a 16 year old who basically goes up to his cave time room and hangs out in there and does his stuff in there. And if on the rare occasion he needs a haircut it doesn't take three hours. So no, I get that. But I, on the other hand, I also don't have joiners and even when my kid was a joiner. You know, for example, when Benjamin did cross country, he would tell me which meets to go to cause he knew full well I was not going to all of them. And I think that's important. Then if I knew he said to me, you know, please come to this particular meet, you know that's important to him and then I showing up means something. But yeah, I guess you are right.KJ:                                        14:15                    Well, that's what I'm getting out of this. I really did, I wrote down my time from when I got up until when I sort of stopped working for the day. And Monday I didn't do because I forgot it was Monday, basically. I did work, but I forgot it was Monday cause it was that kind of week. We are recording this during Martin Luther King week. So I forgot Monday, Tuesday I had total writing town of an hour and 50 minutes and total work time of three and a half hours because two kids had dentist appointments and I went to the dentist and then one kid looked at the dentist and I think I'm going to barf and the dentist said, 'You sit over there and don't touch anything.' So I ended up even having to reschedule that kid's dentist appointment in a burst of true inefficiency cause to me if you don't take at least two people to the doctor or dentist at a time, you've completely blown it. I sort of came home and I did (I mean props to me, I'm going to take this one) I do write first. I write first almost no matter what, after the things that I have been unable...Jess:                                     15:24                    And you write outside the house, too.KJ:                                        15:26                    No, I do sometimes. Yeah.Jess:                                     15:29                    You're so good at that, though.KJ:                                        15:30                    So that's what I'm looking at is like, okay, I had an hour and 50 minutes of writing time and total work time of three and a half hours. Because carpool, because I made dinner, because I drove someone to hockey, because I took a Spanish lesson. What I'm looking at is what time in there could I have probably gotten back. And the answer is maybe the dentist appointment - and my partner does do a lot of those things. So it just depends. I need to speak up. Carpool I could work harder, because I ended up with carpool every day this week, so I could work harder to make that not happen so well. Cause Wednesday was much the same thing, except they were my doctor's appointments and I can't really do anything about that. I have issues, and I have to go, and then I'm depressed, and that doesn't help. But again, I did come home and I did right first.Jess:                                     16:31                    Actually I want to break in here cause I think listeners need to know something important. When you say carpool it's because - if I still lived where we live, where you live, I would be having to do a lot of that driving because where we live does not have a bus to take the kids to the high school. So there's this requirement of someone to go down a town away and pick up the children. And you know Finn has a bus he can take everyday now, but if I was still living there I would at least once a day have to jump in my car and carve an hour out of my day to go get children.KJ:                                        17:10                    But if I were meaner, I would make the children sometimes do other things. And I've been so much better about this this year, but I could be better still. Like you know, you could go to the library, or in one child's case there is a bus. It doesn't get the child all the way home, but instead of being an hour round trip, it would be a 20 minute round trip. But the child doesn't want to take the bus. And part of me is like, well, once I'm in the car for 20 minutes, I might as well pick all the other children up. And that's how I get stuck with carpool all the time. And then I have a sick kid and other people had sick kids and that stuck me with carpool all the time. This is not been a good week, but it is sort of forcing me to go, 'How am I contributing to this not being a good week?' And some of that is saying yes to things that I could either pack into all the same time or just say, 'I'm sorry. You're going to have to sit at the library for two hours until your dad's ready to come home.' I could do that. I could do it more. I do it some.Sarina:                                 18:20                    Well, I have found and it's a little lesson that I keep learning over and over again. That even when I think I'm paying attention to these details and getting my hands around this. Sometimes, in fact, usually, there's more attention I could be paying because the answer's in there somewhere. You know, I knew going into January that I needed to get words first and I wanted to get it, and then I was not getting it, and I would end up getting my sticker at like 10:30 at night, having sat down to work sort of at 7:30 in the morning. So obviously, lots of slippage going on there. And I really had to say, okay, why, why does this keep happening? It's not because we're not smart enough to get this job done. It's something is blowing us up every day. And it was me going into my inbox, just for something quick.KJ:                                        19:24                    Yeah, that's killer.Jess:                                     19:27                    It's Twitter for me.KJ:                                        19:28                    I agree. You can't do that. I am actually so resolute about this. So onto this morning, when I didn't have a doctor, or a dentist, or anything, and in theory I would have been back home and sitting at my desk at 8:15 ready to write. Except that when I went out at 7:30 to feed the mini ponies, we were startling one mini pony short of a pair. That's not normal. There should be two. So I sort of followed the evidence, and looked around, and fortunately there was not a mini pony laying and hurt anywhere. He had broken through the fence and burst down and headed down to our barn. So, I had to stop, take the child to school, and then I had to come back, repair the fence, strip the wires, rewire the fence, go down, get both the ponies again, because in the interval the other pony had gone down to the barn and put them back. So, at that point I kinda gave up on the week.Jess:                                     20:32                    I don't know, if you had been Sarina, you could've been dictating your book the entire time you were doing all this work. Cause it appears that Sarina's getting her words in through alternate means recently, which is also just infuriating to me. I mean inspirational, yet infuriating.Sarina:                                 20:52                    It doesn't really work quite like that, Missy.Jess:                                     20:56                    I'm just impressed by the whole process, cause it's something that I just haven't been able to do and I'm just impressed. That's all.Sarina:                                 21:14                    I don't actually dictate the prose of my book, much. Instead, when I need to work out what happens next in a book, like I do my pre-writing this way. You know, so I'm walking around Lebanon while someone's having a violin lesson saying like, 'And then he has to run into her in this place and it's awkward because of this thing and then...'. You know, but it's not words that I can save.Jess:                                     21:40                    I think actually what I enjoy most is the image of you all bundled up talking to yourself as you walk around high school track in another town, talking about the plot of your book. I enjoy that image very, very much.Sarina:                                 21:58                    Well, good. But it really helps.KJ:                                        22:03                    I mean cause one of the things I gain from sitting down and doing this thing where I sort of every half an hour wrote down what I did and how many words I ended up with - was that actually doesn't take me that long to get a fairly large amount of words. I wrote 2,700 words in two and a half hours today. But part of that is because I had pre-written, a little of it I pulled out of an old draft and was able to drop in. And this was all pictured. Like I knew what was going to happen. I knew what they were going to say to each other. I knew who the people were, I knew what I was doing. So I was both sort of heartened and disheartened by how little actual time it would probably take me to finish the draft. And yet how slowly I am accomplishing it.Sarina:                                 22:55                    You know what though, when I worked on Wall Street, we had a daily profit and loss. Everyday you would have a P and L and the boss would walk around at the end of the day, and look at everybody, and you would say up 25 grand or down 10 grand or up 50 grand. And then every few months you would have like a career day. You would be able to look at the boss and say, 'I made $700,000 today.' And then you would walk away after that and get your overpriced glass of wine or whatever and think, what if I just came to work on those days?KJ:                                        23:32                    What if I just wrote bestsellers?Sarina:                                 23:34                    Yeah, but that's the thing about your 2,700 words in two and a half hours. Like the stars and moon were in perfect alignment for you to get that. And that's why I look so carefully at what is my average take over time? Because you can't put that pressure on yourself all the time. Like just because your day theoretically has two and a half hours in, it doesn't mean you're going to end up with 2,700 keepers.Jess:                                     23:59                    What's been really noticeable about that, Sarina, is that this month I have worked every single day on my editing and there've been some days that I haven't worked a long, long time. I've been having some of those brain cramps that KJ talks about sometimes where she's like, 'Ow it hurts. I want to go do something else.' And I feel like I'm wrestling my brain to stay on the page, but just the fact that I worked every single day means I think I'm going to hit my deadline at the end of this month. Or at least I'm going to come within a couple of days if I go over. And I think that just comes down to the fact that even if I had a couple of really slow days or low work sticker days, that they're all there and that something got done every single day. And that's really helping me more than I thought it would. I thought, you know, Oh my God, this is going to be a grind. I'm going to have to sit down for six hours a day this month to get it done. And that hasn't been the case. I just have to sit down every day.Sarina:                                 24:58                    Yeah. And you have to forgive yourself when you can't. Like I'm finding myself in the odd position with the book that I'm working on now that I know a lot about how it ends, but it turns out that the beginning was a little bit mysterious to me. Which never happens, it's usually the opposite. And so I've been so frustrated with myself about not knowing how to get to that point in the future. And you can't rush that cogitation time. So I could tell you all my tricks for writing books in the passenger seat of the car while the kid is doing his karate. But it doesn't matter if I'm not ready to like spit out chapter four.KJ:                                        25:44                    Agreed.Jess:                                     25:45                    I have been noticing that you mentioned earlier that it's been harder for you to get your words done every day. And I have been noticing that your text with the word stickers coming in later in the day than it usually does.Sarina:                                 25:56                    Yeah. That's cause I'm spending the whole day thinking, 'But why are we doing this in chapter four?' And trying to move the steering wheel in ways that it doesn't want to move. But anyway, that happens. And when I know what I'm doing, then I really just have to sit there and let it happen. Like at the end of our podcast we talk about what books we've read and I won't have one today because I finally figured out some stuff about chapter four and I don't want to walk away.KJ:                                        26:27                    You're reading your own book, in your head.Jess:                                     26:29                    I'm actually about to have to do that again just to get the big picture because I'm at the point in editing where I'm trying to drop in a few pieces here and there and when I do that without going back through the whole book, I end up repeating myself. Like not even realizing that I already said that. Or you know, this feels so brilliant right now. Oh, that's because I already wrote this entire section and it was 20 pages ago. I think it's so hard for that reason, though. I think it's so hard to get back in any kind of flow because you're trying to dip into something that you wrote six months ago. And that's what's proving really mentally challenging for me. Cause I've now made that mistake a couple of times. Writing something that I realize is two paragraphs before. But what I'm actually doing right now is a fun thing (I say fun sarcastically). So in books by big publishers that are not academic books, you have to do this thing at the end called key phrase call-out where you go back and you find a little key phrase and then you go to the end and you give the little key phrase and then you give the reference for the key phrase. And that's what I'm in the middle of doing now. And there really isn't anything more boring than that. Very, very few things anyway.KJ:                                        27:51                    Wait, but that sounds like the kind of thing you would normally have sort of done at the same time.Jess:                                     27:58                    Yes. So I have traditional end notes because I was using that citation manager. Well that's the kind of thing where I can have a movie playing, or I can listen to the BBC's Pride and Prejudice for the 3,000th time while I'm doing that kind of thing. And that makes the process a little bit happier for me.KJ:                                        28:29                    I don't know if we've learned anything, because these fall into the category of, as Sarina said, lessons we just keep learning. But, I'm taking away that I need to protect my time and heck, at least I'm good at not looking at my emails and texts.Jess:                                     28:59                    Actually, KJ, I have to tell you. I actually was being interviewed for something yesterday and I referred to you and I referred to How To Be a Happier Parent because the person was asking me about how she was feeling like her time was just being stolen away from her and how much time her kids were spending in extracurriculars. And I said that one of the most meaningful action points from How To Be a Happier Parent was about talking to your kids about if you commit to this thing, here are the things you're not going to be able to do. And as you went through, I think when one of your kids was thinking about doing an extra sport or something like that. And I said, 'You know, that's one of the things that yes, we have to keep relearning this, but it's also important to talk this through with our kids. If we're going to say, you know, our kid wants to do another team sport, and you say, look, your parent works as a writer and your parent is going to have to drive you back and forth. So let's talk about the things that you won't be able to do with the time. And let's talk about the things that are going to be difficult for me to do with my time.' And I don't think that means we're selfish. I think that means that we're teaching our kids that it's important to value their time as well. And that was sort of the point I made to the journalist and when phrased that way, it's about teaching our kids to value our time, allowing ourselves the ability to sequester our most valuable bits of time for the work that we want to do the most. And that just means we're taking ourselves seriously as professionals. So that's my big takeaway. I'm giving everyone permission to tell their kids that they can't do another team sport because they have to be able to get the words written. There you go. Well and I also like Sarina's point about having small rules about the coffee. I happen to have small rules. My rule is the opposite of hers. I'm allowed to sit at my desk and have breakfast and my coffee while I look at Twitter, but as soon as my breakfast is gone, I have to shut down Twitter and get to work.KJ:                                        30:57                    Having these little practices is important. For me it's basically no phone till I take kids to school, because I just will get derailed so easily by a work text, or a work email, or something. Our mornings are so calibrated that five minutes later is a problem. So that's one and I didn't think about that anymore. And then no email until after I've got the words done. That's another one I don't think about anymore. And it's a little bit of a luxury. I don't have an editor. If there's something I really needed to check, I would, but I don't have to. So, I'm used to those I wasn't giving myself credit for those.Jess:                                     31:41                    One other small thing that also works for me is my rule generally is morning is for the words. So if I'm scheduling a dentist appointment, if I'm scheduling an interview, or one of those conference calls I was talking about I say I'm available anytime after noon and just the morning is not available. That's just for the words.KJ:                                        32:02                    Yeah. I just have to cut myself a little more slack this month, for whatever reason, for basically every appointment known to man. I apparently at some point last fall looked at it and said, 'Well, January would be good for that.' With the result that every week is like orthodontist, and hair, and dentist, and chiropractor, and I have all my followups. And that was not a question of choice. That was a question of timing. And just endless, endless stuff. Plus, it's hockey season. It's the only sport that two of the three children that are still at home play. Things will get better when it is no longer hockey season.Jess:                                     32:47                    That was my November, my book will be turned in. So November is just wide open, schedule all the things. And I paid, man, I paid in November. That was tough.KJ:                                        32:59                    That's a lesson I wish that I would learn. But yeah, I don't know. I mean they gotta do those things sometimes. It wouldn't be any better in February. I don't know if it's better to mash them all, but boy it is frustrating to look at a week and go wow, every single morning somebody has an appointment to do something at eight o'clock. Because that's when I make mine. Cause you can get them done, and then you can get them to school, and about half of them my partner takes. But sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't.Jess:                                     33:33                    Alright. Sarina, you have anything to add before I move on to the reading stuff that you didn't do?Sarina:                                 33:41                    You know, I actually realized that I did read something. Should I kick off with that?Jess:                                     33:48                    Oh, sure, sure.Sarina:                                 33:49                    I read a beautiful novel named Great and Precious Things by Rebecca Yarros, which comes out in February. And she does angsty, emotional, military heroes in sort of a crossover between romance and women's fiction.Jess:                                     34:08                    Okay. That sounds really good, actually. I read something that I think I'm going to be lending probably to KJ I'm assuming. I picked it up at the Vermont bookshop in Middlebury, Vermont, and it's called The Wilderness Idiot: Lessons from an Accidental Adventurer. It's by Ted Alvarez. And Ted Alvarez is an editor for Backpacker Magazine. And it's really, really fun. They're sort of short pieces so you can dip in and out. And it's really, really funny. It's making me laugh a lot. I really liked it.KJ:                                        34:48                    Well, I read a book that I am going to be passing on to you, Jess. I read Toil and Trouble by Augustan Burrows. And it is so much fun. It's basically what if David Sedaris believed he was a witch and do I need to say anything more than that? Because it's awesome.Jess:                                     35:08                    So Augustan Boroughs, you know, I've been a fan of for a long time. I was just really worried because Wolf at the Table I didn't love, even though he wasn't trying to be particularly funny in that book because it was about his abusive dad. So I was concerned with Toil and Trouble; it sounded a little off the rails to me. Like Augustan Bouroughs is convinced he's a witch, but I'm so glad that you liked it because I wanted it to be good.KJ:                                        35:33                    I do like it and I don't care that Augusten Burroughs is convinced that he's a witch. I enjoy that about Augusten Burroughs. I appreciated that. Yeah, it totally works in this context, I think.Jess:                                     35:47                    Cause as far as I'm concerned, Augusten Burrough's book Dry is my favorite addiction memoir ever. I love that book so much. And I'm an Augusten Burroughs fan, so yeah.KJ:                                        36:02                    Alright, well that's our episode. What we really do all day and today we spent about an hour recording this. I spent the preceding hour prepping tomorrow's episode fully. That's the other thing about actually tracking what you do is you end up with little notes that say things like, 'Wrote Instagram story about pony escape, half an hour.' and then you are forced to realize that seems like nothing - it's not nothing.Jess:                                     36:39                    Well, I actually kept track of how much time it took me to get this one email address that I really needed to work, to work. And it took me over three and a half hours of my time to get an email address to work.KJ:                                        36:53                 

Swim Bike Bonk.  What happens when you tackle an IRONMAN in a really (really) short amount of time?  Let's find out! Will McGough writes, "I have been a full-time travel writer since 2010, a nomad-at-large and travel columnist, penning profiles, features, and dispatches from afar. My “wake and wander” travel philosophy embraces a curiosity about the way people live their lives in different parts of the world. I enjoy the idea of waking up every day to new opportunities, new landscapes, and the new feelings that the former inevitably evoke. I enjoy being outside. I have written stories for major travel publications around the globe, including Forbes Travel Guide, Conde Nast, Outside Magazine, Men’s Journal, the Travel Channel, AFAR, Backpacker Magazine, Travel Pulse, the Brewer’s Association, and many others. I am a graduate of Virginia Tech and [my new book is] Swim, Bike, Bonk." Get the Book Swim Bike Bonk : Confessions of a Reluctant Triathlete Connect with Will Instagram: @Wakeandwanderhawaii Website: wakeandwander.com  ======================  Request to Join the FREE Meredith Atwood Community & Coaching https://meredith-atwood-coaching.mn.co/ ======================  Buy Meredith’s Books: The Year of No Nonsense https://amzn.to/3su5qWp Triathlon for the Every Woman: https://amzn.to/3nOkjiH =======================   Follow Meredith Atwood & The Podcast on Social: Web: http://www.swimbikemom.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/swimbikemom   =======================  Want to Connect?  Email: same24hourspodcast@gmail.com =======================  Credits: Host & Production: Meredith Atwood Copyright 2017-2020, 2021 All Rights Reserved, Meredith Atwood, LLC

Engearment Podcast with Sean Sewell - Scott Yorko and Ryan Irvin - Adventure, Misadventure, Splitboarding, Interviewing the most rad skiers in the world and much more!I met Scott Yorko at the Backpacker Magazine headquarters in Boulder.  There, I was working with FourPoints and I put the AIM crew though an outdoor workout with battle ropes and kettlebells and we had a blast.  The next time we got together was on Christmas of that year.  His dog, him and I went for a nice splitboard tour. As per usual with Scott, plans A and B failed we found our way onto misadventure!  You will pick up on that kind of fun in this chat.  He and his good friend Ryan, have covered some really amazing interviews, all around the world.  Listening to them reminisce about them is a great pleasure.It would not be a good time hanging out with these guys if things did not go according to plan.  Almost like clockwork, my plan A and plan B failed for the podcast recording.  So, we are missing half of the discussion, but I think this is the better half and it is still damn entertaining!Check out scottyorko.com to find out what Scott is working on.  Lots of great articles to read!Check out ryanirvinphoto.com to see what Ryan is up to as well!

Emily is a writer, adventurer, climber, and comfort zone smasher. Put on her first international flight at 3 weeks old, she's been addicted to adventure ever since. From wandering the forests of Sweden alone at age nine, to solo trekking in the Himalayas of India, to joining the circus as a professional aerialist, Emily is a big fan of the "just get out there and do it" mentality. She loves inspiring others to go outside, travel, and get curious about everything. As John Muir so aptly put it, "going out is really going in.” Emily works as a freelance journalist based out of Los Angeles and has written for Outside Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, Mountain Life Magazine, Outdoor Project, Modern Hiker, Territory Supply, The Outbound, Women Who Explore, and many others. Some of her notable outdoor accomplishments include: hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal, backpacking the High Sierra Trail in California and finishing atop Mt. Whitney, trekking the Laugavegur Trail in Iceland, summiting Illiniza Norte in Ecuador, summiting Vinicunca in Peru, hiking the Inca Trail with her mom, solo-trekking the Backbone Trail, climbing Cactus to Clouds in the winter, trail running Yosemite Rim to Rim, and dozens of other high-altitude peaks in the Sierra Nevada and California. Show notes Her alter ego when hiking Where the Brazen backpacker idea came from Being brazen and wild Moving to LA at 17 Being inspired by her mother Leaving Texas behind How the outdoors became part of her life The mental barrier to access to the outdoors Her first backpacking trip at 28 The challenges of altitude Her hiking journey  Her passions for getting more women out hiking Her relationship with her mum Hiking the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal Dealing with periods and tiredness on the trail The basics of backpacking Steep and Cheap - https://www.steepandcheap.com ONLY in the US - for Europe - alpinetrek.co.uk  The magic of face wipes The best problem to have! Heading to Iceland for adventure Quick Fire Questions I am loving awareness  Social Media  Find out more about Emily’s writing and photography here: https://brazenbackpacker.com/ and follow on Instagram @brazenbackpacker    

In Episode 69, Cardiac and Drone Boy are back after a nearly two year hiatus to discuss a "Dozen Ways To Die In the Backcountry" - an article that first appeared in Backpacker Magazine in 2008 and was recently published online. The topic tonight is timely since we record Halloween eve and take a "stab" at the Top 12 reasons hikers and backpackers get killed in the wilderness.  We also discuss what was left off the list (and merits inclusion) plus offer up some lessons to assure you are not a casulty in the wilderness. You can see the live video recording of this podcast on Drone Boy's YouTube channel, or for a bonus show that covers this topic in a more rowdy and explicit manner check out Episode 62 "Backpacker Feud". Subject: A Dozen Ways To DieInterviewees: Scott (Cardiac); Gary (Drone Boy)Interview Date: October 30, 2019Runtime: 1:01:32 Download Now: A Dozen Ways To Die (WMA format 59.5 Meg); A Dozen Ways To Die (MP3 format 59.3 Meg)

Rich Rudow’s life has become intrinsically linked with the Grand Canyon. On a raft trip in 1989, he became enamored with the mysteries beneath its rim. Having spent 1000 days within its walls and having helped establish many of its technical canyoneering routes, Rich is now recognized as an expert in the region by respected establishments such as National Geographic and Outside Magazine. Rich and Jason sat out a summer monsoon in Kanab to discuss his experiences in the canyon’s depths, his history as an entrepreneur, and the responsibility we share to protect natural places. Links: Social Media: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/richrudow/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rich.rudow   Organizations: Coalition of American Canyoneers: http://www.americancanyoneers.org American Packrafting Association: http://packraft.org/ Articles: Nat Geo article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/09/grand-canyon-development-hiking-national-parks/ Arizona Republic: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-best-reads/2016/11/23/grand-canyon-toughest-challenge-arizona-hiking-end-to-end/91253996/ Backpacker Magazine: https://www.backpacker.com/trips/over-the-edge Outside Magazine: https://www.outsideonline.com/1898596/2012-outside-adventurers-year Hyperlight Mountain Gear: https://www.hyperlitemountaingear.com/blogs/ultralight/the-grandest-walk-a-700-mile-thru-hike-below-the-rim Books: The Grand Canyon: Between Rim & River, Pete McBride https://www.amazon.com/Grand-Canyon-Between-River-Rim/dp/0847863042 Grand Canyoneering Guidebook: http://www.toddshikingguide.com/GrandCanyoneering/ Films: Into the Canyon Movie (Pete McBride): https://redfordcenter.org/films/intothecanyon Last of the Great Unknown Trailer: https://vimeo.com/37927326 Full film: https://vimeo.com/38086087 Other: Harvey Butchart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Butchart

In Episode 59, I speak with Bart Smith (aka Infinite Dust) who was recently featured in Backpacker Magazine as "The Man Who Hiked It All".  Since 1992, Bart has hiked nearly 35,000 miles on 30 of America's National Scenic and Historic Trails - completing the last of the Trails by October 2nd, 2018 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the National Trails Act. In the show, Bart tells us about his backcountry photography, the coffee table book he completed with Earl Shaffer on the Appalachian Trail, the photo book he did with Karen Berger on the Pacific Crest Trail, and shares some of his favorite moments capturing scenes in the backcountry.  So if you have the thru-hiking bug, and want to learn more about our National Scenic Trails - now is you chance to hear from the "Man Who Hiked It All."  You can also click to Bart's website to see his photography and learn more about his travels. Subject: The Man Who Hiked It AllInterviewees: Bart (aka Infinite Dust)Interview Date: December 13, 2018Runtime: 1:53:39 Download Now: Man Who Hiked It All (WMA format 109.1 MB); Man Who Hiked It All (MP3 format 109.3 MB)

Join Me at Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=5262583J.R. Harris grew up in New York City where he lived with his parents in a housing project. As a teenager his parents got him out of the city by signing him up for the Boy Scouts in the Catskill Mountains. Harris learned compass and other outdoor skills, quickly surpassing his family and friends’ hiking skills.Way Out There: Adventures of a Wilderness Trekker, takes readers along with J.R. on many adventures from Alaska and the reaches of Canada to Peru, Australia and Tasmania.We talk for quite a long time about his trip on the Canol Heritage Trail in 1997. He found a Backpacker Magazine on a subway at 3AM where he found a story of the trail. J.R. not only hiked the majority of this 255 mile trail, but he also deeply researched the history of the area.He met a surviving member of an all African American battalion which was stationed in this far north Canadian territory during World War II building what would shortly become a failed pipeline. It was feared that Japan would try to destroy the United States fuel coming from Alaska. These men endured hard times.We talk about his preparation for these many adventures. Sometimes he is the first Black person people in the area has ever seen. J.R. makes a point to learn the history and culture of these areas in order to hold true conversations with locals.Over the years, gear has changed. I the book Harris says,“If I want it, I will Carry it.” Though this concept would make you believe he over packs, he has lightened his load over the years. He talks about company’s technological advances since the 60’s and how that alone makes the gear lighter. He always saves room for a flask of aged cognac and a few hand rolled cigars.When he is home, J.R. might watch a show on tv showing something amazing. He describes how most people accept these programs as enough. “Dude, you need to go there,” is the inner dialogue which drives these trips. How does it smell? How does it feel? Going ‘Way Out There’ is the only way to truly experience some places.Our conversation turns to the Grateful Dead. Way Out There has numerous references throughout that possibly only true Dead Heads would notice. In true Dead Head form, I bring up my sister’s connection to the band and J.R. tells his story of meeting the whole band in a lucky way while attending their concert at Watkins Glen.The book- https://www.amazon.com/Way-Out-There-Adventures-Wilderness/dp/1680511203See J.R. in person-This Wednesday, October 10th at 7:30PM Location- Genesee Valley Chapter of the Adirondack Mountain ClubHe is also giving a talk at the Banff Mountain Film & Book Festival later this month. It's called "Trail Talk from an Old Dirt Kicker."Website- https://www.jrinthewilderness.comWaymark Gear CompanyHeavy duty ultralight backpackshttps://www.waymarkgearco.comSix Moons DesignTents and morehttps://www.sixmoondesigns.com

On this weeks show I’m sharing Jason Stevenson’s Ten Hiking Blunders Beginners Make. Jason is the author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Backpacking and Hiking.Jason wrote the article for Backpacker Magazine.  I had a small problem with the altitude while hiking in Colorado this summer. While searching for tips on hiking in high altitude […] The post Jason Stevenson’s Rookie Hiking Mistakes appeared first on Girl Camper.

In Episode 54, we discuss Backpacker Magazine's list of 35 Awesome (and Awesomely Bad) Outdoor Movies while sitting fireside on the Chattooga River.  In the show, I review the hiking and backpacking movies on Backpacker's list with 3Dub, BeerRun, Brownie, The Camel, Napster, The Ox, and Wagonhammer after we sit out a rainstorm on the river.  We discuss the movie, the plot, and the major actors of each film.  Then after a brief debate, the group gives a thumbs-up or down on the movie.  We are sometimes enthusiastic and sometimes not, but frequently have strong opinions on each show - and rarely agree on all the films on the list.  FOREWARNING, this podcast is more edgy and explicit than our normal (non-campfire) shows and is not recommended for those easily offended or under the age of 13.  So if you don't have a sense of humor ... you might want to avoid these backcountry campfire shows.  But if you do - you are in for an interesting discussion!!!  For the official Backpacker Magazine list and for comments from the public to their published article follow this link.  See you in Hollywood! Subject: Awesome (Awesomely Bad) Hiking & Backpacking MoviesInterviewees: 3Dub, Beer Run, Brownie, The Camel, Napster, The Ox, WagonhammerInterview Date: June 23, 2018Runtime: 49:11 Download Now: Awesome (Awesomely Bad) Hiking & Backpacking Movies (WMA format 47.6 MB; Awesome (Awesomely Bad) Hiking & Backpacking Movies (MP3 format 47.5 MB)

In this epsidoe Cory Arola of Kifaru Intl. and Fit 4 the Hunt joins the show to talk about starting out in the hunting industry and what drives him creatively.    Born and raised in Denver, CO, Cory's love for being outside started at a very young age. He was fortunate enough to have parents that took him camping only a handful of months after being born. Since that time, he has been exploring endlessly. He is always on some adventure: be it hiking, camping, backpacking, fishing, hunting, or snowboarding. Cory's love for photography started at a young age, as well. He started shooting pictures long before the time of digital cameras, as film was expensive to develop. At an early age, his mother gave him a camera without film, and he would go around pretending to take photos of everything. Fast forward to college where he received training in photojournalism and completed a photo internship at Backpacker Magazine. Since that time, photography has primarily been a hobby to share my adventures with friends and family. As he became more experienced he had his hands in various projects, as these projects progressed, he began to make videos. he made short films about snowboarding and hunting excursions for friends and family to share and enjoy. To this day, he continues to do this, because he is always learning something new with each outing, and he absolutely loves watching them watch themselves. The smiles and experiences he shares are immeasurable. Cory's fitness background comes from playing soccer. In college, he taught snowboarding. he used to enjoy competing in various obstacle course races however since the hunting world has incorporated physical events with shooting he has transitioned primarily into that as well as endurance races. His goal is to perform better in the real world activities he enjoys. In addition, Cory loves to cook and has learned a great deal about it from his mother. This is a big reason why Cory loves hunting. Bringing home clean, organic meat allows him to explore many ways to cook and prepare different meals, and he knows the source of his meat

Liz Thomas is among the most experienced female hikers in the U.S. and is known for backpacking light, fast and solo. In 2011, she broke the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail, besting the previous record by almost a week. She has completed the Triple Crown of Hiking–the Appalachian Trail, the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail, and the 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail–and has backpacked over 15,000 miles across the United States on 20 long distance hikes, including the pioneering traverse of the Chinook Trail across the Columbia River Gorge and the Wasatch Range, which she did solo. Liz is affectionately known as the “Queen of Urban Hiking,” having pioneered and completed routes in five cities across the U.S. Liz has been featured on Good Morning America, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! News, Outside Online, and Gizmodo. She gives presentations about long distance hiking around the country, especially to college outdoor clubs like the one where she first learned how to backpack. Liz is honored to serve as Vice President of the American Long Distance Hiking Association-West and as one of five ambassadors for American Hiking Society. Liz is the author of Long Trails: Mastering the Art of the Thru-hike published by Falcon Guide and instructor for Backpacker Magazine’s 6-week online class, Thru-hiking 101. When not on trail, Liz lives in Southern California and is an outdoor staff writer for the Wirecutter, part of the New York Times. Find Liz:  Website - www.eathomas.com   Facebook Page - www.facebook.com/lizthomashiking   Instagram - @lizthomashiking   Twitter: @eathomas   Show Sponsored by:  Four Sigmatic - http://www.foursigmatic.com Use code: DIYS to save 10% on your order Keto Kookie - http://ketokookie.com?aff=156 Use Code: DIYS to save 10% on your order   Mistobox Coffee Club - http://mbox.coffee/Y9FA Use Code: DIYS to save $10 on your subscription   Full Shownotes:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com Join the Facebook Group:  http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/tribe Support the Show: http://www.dirtinyourskirt.com/support 

In Episode 47, Beer Run and Therm Rider join me from the mountains surrounding Lake Burton to sit fireside and discuss more rookie mistakes.  In this special "Your Screwed Dude" episode we talk about overconfidence, getting your friends lost in the backcountry, inadvertently smuggling banned items on airplanes, editables, dork moves, and backcountry crimes of fashion. “Backcountry 301” is the third installment in this series, and in the show we debate some of the "52 Common Mistakes" that Backpacker Magazine listed in a previous issue.  So kick back and brace yourself - because you may be educated and you likely will be entertained. Subject: Backcountry 301 - Your Screwed Dude!Interviewees: Beer Run, Therm RiderInterview Date: October 6, 2017Runtime: 1:01:50 Download Now: Backcountry 301 - Your Screwed Dude! (WMA format 45.6); Backcountry 301 - Your Screwed Dude! (MP3 format 59.6)

Annette McGivney is the southwest editor of Backpacker Magazine and the author of Pure Land, available now. She explains her history with backpacking and the way that it helped her in her struggle with PTSD. Pure Land: A True Story of Three Lives and The Search for Heaven on Earth Annette’s newest book weaves together … Continue reading Annette McGivney and Pure Land: How the Outdoors Can Overcome Trauma →

Meet Jim Kern, a veteran of the hiking world, yet on a mission to CLOSE THE GAPS on America's trails. He has hiked all over the world, yet his passion is here at home in Florida, with the Florida Trail. Jim started the Florida Trail in 1966, when a lot of us were in short pants back at school, while many of us weren't even born yet. Watch this short YouTube video to get a feel of what the trail is about.       The picture above is of Jim overlooking the Appalachian Trail in 1967. In our conversation, Jim points to the relative passivity of hikers–compared to, say, gun owners–when it comes to demanding rights. Jim and I would appreciate everybody signing his petition. I've copied the Mission Statement of Hiking Trails for America in full to articulate the need. America has 11 National Scenic Trails, but after 60 years only the Appalachian National Scenic Trail has a right-of-way set aside for posterity. The other 10 trails have gaps subject to closure and dangerous road-walks. Many have access problems. Hiking Trails for America (HTA) has been formed to support permanent protection and continuity for all National Scenic Trails and to educate the general public in the use of foot trails for walking, hiking and backpacking.     You can sign the petition by visiting HikingTrailsForAmerica.org. Don't delay, do it right away. The link below will take you to a site that is highlighting the 50th Anniversary of the National Scenic Trails Act of 1968. Jim is planning a march on Earth Day in D.C. and a full page ad will go into the January issue of Backpacker Magazine. The details are still in the works.  Jim is anxious that our listeners are made aware of this important anniversary.  Many hikers are unaware the Act even exists. Click on the link to learn more. Jim also refers to his coffee table book, Trail Reflections, 50 Years of Hiking and Backpacking. Click on this Amazon link and you'll be taken directly to it.     Doctor Lynne takes a well-deserved Christmas break for the rest of December. But, before she goes, she gave us some reassuring information about Lyme Disease. If you'd like to learn a little more, here is a link to a short YouTube lecture by Lynne. She also wanted me to point you towards the CDC website which also covers Lyme. Don't forget to listen to our other show, Returning to Katahdin, where we follow Bruce Matson in his preparations, and later execution of his 2018 thru-hike. Thanks, as ever, to our generous sponsors, Trailtopia.

On this episode of the podcast I had a chat with Aidan Klimenko. We speak on his upcoming project with Backpacker Magazine, South America, van breakdowns, photography, his recently hacked Instagram account and more. www.iamaidan.com Instagram: aidan.klimenko Recorded: 06/15/17   Music: Commander Cody - My Home In My Hand www.commandercody.com   Twitter: asiroampodcast Facebook: As I Roam www.asiroam.com  

Today’s guest is Kim Dinan, author of the memoir, The Yellow Envelope: One Gift, Three Rules, and a Life Changing Journey Around the World. She has backpacked to over twenty-five countries on five continents. Her love of the outdoors landed her a coveted job on Backpacker Magazine’s Get Out More Tour and has compelled her to climb mountains in the Himalayas, raft frigid rivers in Patagonia, and walk five hundred and fifty miles across Spain on her own. Her popular travel blog, So Many Places, was named one of the best outdoor blogs by USA Today and has been featured online by such sites as Huffington Post and BuzzFeed. Kim joins host Mindy McGinnis to talk about the difference between querying fiction and non-fiction and her need to write that started with a blog, and culminated with a memoir, as well as writing the truth in non-fiction even when it’s not flattering to yourself or others, and trying not to take reviews personally when you write memoir. Also, Kim’s journeys around the world and her take on active motherhood. Links: Kim's Site Kim's Blog

Stephen has built a solid career as an Outdoor Lifestyle and Landscape Photographer. I've had the pleasure of working with him when I was a Product Manager. His clients include National Geographic, Cascade Designs, Backpacker Magazine, Kelty and a slew of others. We had to deal with a Skype crash in the middle of this but don't worry, you didn't miss any of the good stuff. Facebook Twitter Instagram Website Please rate and review HERE

Samantha talks about her favorite and least favorite 4Ks, the ups and downs of working on the Northeast's highest summit, her time with Backpacker Magazine's 2014 Get Out More Women's Tour, the rewarding experience of being a Search and Rescue Volunteer, and more.

www.AlternativeHealthTools.com  Dr. Ginger Holistic Physician, Author and Nutrition Expert."Your body, if given the proper tools, can heal itself from disease. I teach those tools." After graduating from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and going on to earn her doctorate degree at New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Ginger has specialized in helping to educate others to heal with a 3-pronged approach: 1. The Mind-Body Connection? 2. Super-Nutrition 3. Detoxification. Dr. Ginger is a founding member a wellness consulting company known for its unique approach to turning around disease in as little as 30 days and strategically taming escalating health care costs in both Corporate America and the private sector. Dr. Ginger, an authority on workplace wellness, is bucking the old system of "disease management" and is blazing a new trail with her "disease reversal" approach to corporate wellness, assisting Fortune 300 and 500 companies, country clubs and restaurants, and even professional and high school sports teams with their health challenges and inspiring radical behavioral changes in clients that translates into both lives and dollars saved. Known for her "Fat Funeral Detox" and her "7-Day Online Fat Funeral Detox Nutrition Bootcamp" programs as well as her "pH Parties," Dr. Ginger gets the unhealthy back on the road to exceptional health and makes them fit for office and health literate in as little as 30 days. From high cholesterol to diabetes, obesity, gout, arthritis, and a host of other modern day diseases, Dr. Ginger asserts, "Your body, if given the proper tools, can heal itself of disease." It's those healing tools she teaches. Before founding her wellness consulting company, Dr.Ginger was Director of Corporate Wellness for Bruton Smith’s Sonic Automotive and Speedway Motorsports (NASCAR race tracks). Previously, she served as Director of Nutritional Wellness for The Cliffs Communities, as well as Spa Director for The Trump Spa at Mar-a-lago, Donald Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla. She has also worked for a team of cardiologists, treated patients in a sports rehab facility, and was a consultant for one of the world's largest developers of fitness products, as seen on TV. Since then, Dr. Ginger has devoted her professional life to public health education. She helped to develop the first policy for the "Surgeon General’s Report on Physical Activity & Health for Women," and today she continues as a consumer health advocate, using her intimate knowledge of the human body, physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, and preventive and alternative medicine to weave together meaningful disease-busting consumer education information through her magazine articles, TV appearances, including The Dr. OZ Show and FOX News, radio shows, and speaking engagements nationwide. She has also been an instructor of nutrition and digestive & metabolic physiology for the Health Educator Program at Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida; named the #1 medical wellness spa in the world by Spa Magazine, has taught in the "Chef's Choice" program at Johnson & Wales University School of Culinary Arts in Charlotte, NC, sits on the scientific advisory board of Ariix, and is an invited Sharecare Health Expert on Dr. Oz’s sharecare.com website. Her new book, "The Rainbow Juice Cleanse," (Running Press April 2015) has been one of Amazon’s Hot Releases, has been #1 in Weight Loss Recipe books, #1 In Juice, Cooking and Food books, and several other categories. Dr. Ginger was recently featured in a segment on The Dr. Oz Show with her book. It has been endorsed by everyone from Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Marky Hyman, and The Food Babe, to actor Kevin Sorbo, Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Taylor Armstrong, David Limbaugh, and a host of others. (View the full list of endorsements at RainbowJuiceCleanse.com) An avid adventure sport athlete, in her spare time, Dr. Ginger enjoys all water sports, rock climbing, rappelling, mountain biking and triathlons. She spent 31 days climbing her way to the summit of her first mountain, North American's tallest mountain, Mt. McKinley/Denali in Alaska; standing 20,320ft. tall. Her adventure sport expeditions have been featured on OLN/ Outdoor Life Network and ABC's Wide World of Sports. The U.S. Marines have honored her with their "Portrait of Pride Award" for her determination and perseverance in one of her adventure sport competitions. Dr. Ginger also had her own monthly health column in the national outdoor enthusiast's periodical, "Backpacker Magazine." Dr. Ginger was the reigning Mrs. Virginia U.S.A. 2013 and was 4th runner up in the 2013 Mrs. United States Pageant. She is a big supporter helping women stand up against domestic violence and how to recognize the signs of abuse (that often start with emotional and psychological abuse) to help prevent getting caught up in the "cycle."? Dr. Ginger still continues to enjoy any type of outdoor activity, and also enjoys Bikram (hot) yoga, green juicing, organic gardening, horseback riding, and daily detox sessions in her Clearlight Infrared Sauna. She lives in Michigan on a ranch with her husband, Aaron. Wellness TipSelf Advocate For Your Own Health. Educate Yourself. Links mentionedwww.TheDrGinger.comwww.TheRainbowJuiceCleanse.comThe Rainbow Juice Cleanse on Amazonwww.FatFuneralDetox.comwww.ShareCare.com www.MUVPhysicalTherapy.comARIIX.com Contact informationDr. GingerErika Elmuts Using podsafe music from http://ccmixter.org/Loveshadow - Almost Given UpNethis - SteadySpeck - Greensleeves (whatever mix) DISCLAIMERThe information contained in these podcasts and on this website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional to diagnose your health condition and prevent self diagnosis. We do not dispense medical advice or prescribe or diagnose illness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration or the American Medical Association have not evaluated, approved, or disapproved the material contained in these podcasts or on this website or its related material. No specific claims are made in relation to any health conditions or the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the devices contained in this website.  

www.AlternativeHealthTools.com  Dr. Ginger Holistic Physician, Author and Nutrition Expert."Your body, if given the proper tools, can heal itself from disease. I teach those tools." After graduating from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and going on to earn her doctorate degree at New York Chiropractic College, Dr. Ginger has specialized in helping to educate others to heal with a 3-pronged approach: 1. The Mind-Body Connection? 2. Super-Nutrition 3. Detoxification. Dr. Ginger is a founding member a wellness consulting company known for its unique approach to turning around disease in as little as 30 days and strategically taming escalating health care costs in both Corporate America and the private sector. Dr. Ginger, an authority on workplace wellness, is bucking the old system of "disease management" and is blazing a new trail with her "disease reversal" approach to corporate wellness, assisting Fortune 300 and 500 companies, country clubs and restaurants, and even professional and high school sports teams with their health challenges and inspiring radical behavioral changes in clients that translates into both lives and dollars saved. Known for her "Fat Funeral Detox" and her "7-Day Online Fat Funeral Detox Nutrition Bootcamp" programs as well as her "pH Parties," Dr. Ginger gets the unhealthy back on the road to exceptional health and makes them fit for office and health literate in as little as 30 days. From high cholesterol to diabetes, obesity, gout, arthritis, and a host of other modern day diseases, Dr. Ginger asserts, "Your body, if given the proper tools, can heal itself of disease." It's those healing tools she teaches. Before founding her wellness consulting company, Dr.Ginger was Director of Corporate Wellness for Bruton Smith's Sonic Automotive and Speedway Motorsports (NASCAR race tracks). Previously, she served as Director of Nutritional Wellness for The Cliffs Communities, as well as Spa Director for The Trump Spa at Mar-a-lago, Donald Trump's private club in Palm Beach, Fla. She has also worked for a team of cardiologists, treated patients in a sports rehab facility, and was a consultant for one of the world's largest developers of fitness products, as seen on TV. Since then, Dr. Ginger has devoted her professional life to public health education. She helped to develop the first policy for the "Surgeon General's Report on Physical Activity & Health for Women," and today she continues as a consumer health advocate, using her intimate knowledge of the human body, physiology, biochemistry, nutrition, and preventive and alternative medicine to weave together meaningful disease-busting consumer education information through her magazine articles, TV appearances, including The Dr. OZ Show and FOX News, radio shows, and speaking engagements nationwide. She has also been an instructor of nutrition and digestive & metabolic physiology for the Health Educator Program at Hippocrates Health Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida; named the #1 medical wellness spa in the world by Spa Magazine, has taught in the "Chef's Choice" program at Johnson & Wales University School of Culinary Arts in Charlotte, NC, sits on the scientific advisory board of Ariix, and is an invited Sharecare Health Expert on Dr. Oz's sharecare.com website. Her new book, "The Rainbow Juice Cleanse," (Running Press April 2015) has been one of Amazon's Hot Releases, has been #1 in Weight Loss Recipe books, #1 In Juice, Cooking and Food books, and several other categories. Dr. Ginger was recently featured in a segment on The Dr. Oz Show with her book. It has been endorsed by everyone from Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Dr. Marky Hyman, and The Food Babe, to actor Kevin Sorbo, Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Taylor Armstrong, David Limbaugh, and a host of others. (View the full list of endorsements at RainbowJuiceCleanse.com) An avid adventure sport athlete, in her spare time, Dr. Ginger enjoys all water sports, rock climbing, rappelling, mountain biking and triathlons. She spent 31 days climbing her way to the summit of her first mountain, North American's tallest mountain, Mt. McKinley/Denali in Alaska; standing 20,320ft. tall. Her adventure sport expeditions have been featured on OLN/ Outdoor Life Network and ABC's Wide World of Sports. The U.S. Marines have honored her with their "Portrait of Pride Award" for her determination and perseverance in one of her adventure sport competitions. Dr. Ginger also had her own monthly health column in the national outdoor enthusiast's periodical, "Backpacker Magazine." Dr. Ginger was the reigning Mrs. Virginia U.S.A. 2013 and was 4th runner up in the 2013 Mrs. United States Pageant. She is a big supporter helping women stand up against domestic violence and how to recognize the signs of abuse (that often start with emotional and psychological abuse) to help prevent getting caught up in the "cycle."? Dr. Ginger still continues to enjoy any type of outdoor activity, and also enjoys Bikram (hot) yoga, green juicing, organic gardening, horseback riding, and daily detox sessions in her Clearlight Infrared Sauna. She lives in Michigan on a ranch with her husband, Aaron. Wellness TipSelf Advocate For Your Own Health. Educate Yourself. Links mentionedwww.TheDrGinger.comwww.TheRainbowJuiceCleanse.comThe Rainbow Juice Cleanse on Amazonwww.FatFuneralDetox.comwww.ShareCare.com www.MUVPhysicalTherapy.comARIIX.com Contact informationDr. GingerErika Elmuts Using podsafe music from http://ccmixter.org/Loveshadow - Almost Given UpNethis - SteadySpeck - Greensleeves (whatever mix) DISCLAIMERThe information contained in these podcasts and on this website is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. Please consult a qualified healthcare professional to diagnose your health condition and prevent self diagnosis. We do not dispense medical advice or prescribe or diagnose illness. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration or the American Medical Association have not evaluated, approved, or disapproved the material contained in these podcasts or on this website or its related material. No specific claims are made in relation to any health conditions or the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of the devices contained in this website.  

Today on the First 40 Miles, with Summer Olympics coming soon, we have one question on our minds: why isn't backpacking an Olympic sport?  Then on today's Top 5 List, we'll peruse an issue of Backpacker Magazine from 40 years ago and see what catches our eye.  On Ready for Adventure, the Olympics do have backpacking!   On the Backpack Hack of the Week, we'll share a listener's life hack.  And we'll wrap up the show with our good friend on the trail, Horace Kephart.

Andrew Skurka is a highly accomplished adventure athlete who is most well known for his long-distance solo backpacking trips, including the 4,700-mile Alaska-Yukon Expedition, the 6,875-mile Great Western Loop, and the 7,775-mile Sea-to-Sea Route. He has also completed countless fast and light trips throughout the Sierras, Wind River Range, Zion National Park, and Appalachian Trail, just to name a few. Andrew has been named "Adventurer of the Year" by both Outside Magazine and National Geographic Adventure, as well as "Person of the Year" by Backpacker Magazine. • Andrew is also a published author, having written "The Ultimate Hiker’s Gear Guide: Tools & Tips to Hit the Trail," and he is close to finishing the manuscript for the book’s second edition. He also writes extensively on his personal blog, which is full of detailed, information-rich articles about backpacking, gear reviews, and other endurance-related content. On top of everything else, Andrew is a guide, speaker, and accomplished ultra-runner, having placed second in the Leadville 100 and third in the Run Rabbit Run 100. Just this past weekend (6/25/16), he placed fourth at the San Juan Solstice 50-Mile Trail Run, one of the most difficult 50-milers in the country. • Andrew is a great guy, and we had a very fun conversation. We obviously talk a lot about many of his long-distance backpacking adventures, but we also dig into some of the mental and emotional aspects of traveling through such remote areas for long periods of time completely alone. We talk about his personal background and how he became interested in adventure sports, and also about his decision to forgo a traditional career in finance or consulting to carve out a career centered around the outdoors and adventure. As usual, I ask about his favorite books, favorite documentaries, and favorite locations in the West. • Thanks to Andrew for joining me, and thanks to you for listening to the podcast. Enjoy! • http://mountainandprairie.com/andrewskurka/ --- TOPICS DISCUSSED: 3:20 - How Andrew describes his work 5:00 - Overview of Andrew’s notable trips 6:30 - “Short is the new long” trips 8:30 - Alaska-Yukon Expedition and other trips 10:35 - Details of the Great Western Loop 14:05 - Details of the Alaska-Yukon Expedition 16:30 - A scary grizzly bear encounter 17:45 - Methods for avoiding distractions, fear, uncertainty 19:35 - Adjusting from expedition life to “normal” life 22:10 - Andrew’s personal background 24:50 - Pursuing an "outside the norm” career after college 27:55 - Advice to folks pursing non-traditional careers 28:25 - Advice to his 22-year old self 30:10 - Specific mistakes that became long-term positives 33:00 - Advice to novice hikers 34:10 - Importance of first-hand experience 36:27 - Andrew’s current life and focuses 38:45 - Approach to writing 40:45 - Thoughts on ultra-running 45:50 - Favorite books 48:55 - Favorite blogs and websites 50:25 - Favorite locations in the West 52:50 - Biggest threats facing the West 55:00 - Andrew’s request of listeners 56:10 - Connect with Andrew online

Back in 2013 Heather "Anish" Anderson set a new Unsupported Fastest Known Time (UFKT) for thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail.Pox was fortunate enough to interview her a few days after she finished for "Episode 25 - Anish and The Badger".After an article was published about her in Backpacker Magazine, Anish has since said she would no longer do interviews about the subject.Fast Forward to September 24, 2015...she did it again.Anish set a new UFKT for the Appalachian Trail: 54 days, 7 hours, 54 minutes.She didn't accept a single ride into town.She walked to her resupplies. She is the dictionary definition of BadAss. In honor of this amazing feat of endurance, strength, and spirit, we have decided to re-release just the interview portion of episode 25.Enjoy.

Today’s guest is a professional adventure, outdoor and travel photographer. He is an official Fujifilm X Photographer and during his eighteen year career, his work has been published in National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Nikon, Fujifilm, Patagonia, The North Face, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Photographer and Alaska Magazine. With a highly energetic shooting style and a [...] The post BITW 030: How to Turn Your Blog into an Income Source with Adventure Photographer Dan Bailey appeared first on Break Into Travel Writing.

Today’s guest is a professional adventure, outdoor and travel photographer. He is an official Fujifilm X Photographer and during his eighteen year career, his work has been published in National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Nikon, Fujifilm, Patagonia, The North Face, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Photographer and Alaska Magazine. With a highly energetic shooting style and a [...] The post BITW 030: How to Turn Your Blog into an Income Source with Adventure Photographer Dan Bailey appeared first on Break Into Travel Writing.

Today’s guest is a professional adventure, outdoor and travel photographer. He is an official Fujifilm X Photographer and during his eighteen year career, his work has been published in National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Nikon, Fujifilm, Patagonia, The North Face, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Photographer and Alaska Magazine. With a highly energetic shooting style and a [...] The post BITW 023: Adventure Photographer Dan Bailey & His Secrets to a Successful Photography Career appeared first on Break Into Travel Writing.

Today’s guest is a professional adventure, outdoor and travel photographer. He is an official Fujifilm X Photographer and during his eighteen year career, his work has been published in National Geographic Adventure, Outside Magazine, Nikon, Fujifilm, Patagonia, The North Face, Backpacker Magazine, Outdoor Photographer and Alaska Magazine. With a highly energetic shooting style and a [...] The post BITW 023: Adventure Photographer Dan Bailey & His Secrets to a Successful Photography Career appeared first on Break Into Travel Writing.

Liz Thomas is a well-traveled adventure athlete most known for breaking the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail in 2011. She has completed the Triple Crown of Hiking–the Appalachian Trail, the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail, and 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail–and has backpacked over 10,000 miles across the United States on long distance hiking trails. Liz is among the most experienced woman hikers in the country and is known for hiking light and fast. In addition to having a lot of experience hiking, Liz also received a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship for her research on long distance hiking trails, conservation, and trail town communities. Liz has been featured in Backpacker Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and LA Magazine and has given talks about her experiences at colleges, hiking clubs, and conferences across the country. www.facebook.com/SnorkelHikes Twitter: @EAThomas Trail Journals American Long Distance Hiking Association - West

Ever wanted to give the longer hikes a try?  What does it take to through hike one of the big trails?  Through hiking expert Liz Thomas shares an overview of the strategy, planning, fitness, and skills required to succeed in today's episode while she announces a new online course she is leading with Backpacker Magazine!   www.tinyurl.com/thruhiking101twitter: @eathomasfacebook: www.fb.com/snorkelhikes www.eathomas.com

Liz Thomas is a well-traveled adventure athlete most known for breaking the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail in 2011. She has completed the Triple Crown of Hiking–the Appalachian Trail, the 2,650 mile Pacific Crest Trail, and 3,100 mile Continental Divide Trail–and has backpacked over 10,000 miles across the United States on long distance hiking trails. Liz is among the most experienced woman hikers in the country and is known for hiking light and fast. In addition to having a lot of experience hiking, Liz also received a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship for her research on long distance hiking trails, conservation, and trail town communities. Liz has been featured in Backpacker Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and LA Magazine and has given talks about her experiences at colleges, hiking clubs, and conferences across the country. www.facebook.com/SnorkelHikes Twitter: @EAThomas Trail Journals American Long Distance Hiking Association - West

Want a lighter pack? Need food planning advice? Want to hike for days without injury? Liz Thomas returns to the Adventure Sports Podcast and shares the tips and tricks of successful through hiking. And Liz ought to know. Recipient of the Triple Crown Award for through hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Appalachian Trial, Liz is a leader in the sport of through hiking. Known for breaking the women’s unsupported speed record on the 2,181-mile long Appalachian Trail in 2011, Liz is among the most experienced women hikers in the country and specializes in hiking light and fast. In addition to having a lot of experience hiking, Liz also received a Masters in Environmental Science from the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Fellowship for her research on long distance hiking trails, conservation, and trail town communities. Liz has been featured in Backpacker Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and LA Magazine and has given talks about her experiences at colleges, hiking clubs, and conferences across the country. www.facebook.com/SnorkelHikesTwitter: @EAThomasAmerican Long Distance Hiking Association - West